From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 29 03:14:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD25106566B for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhellenthal@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8004B8FC14 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:14:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so383485qwb.7 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:14:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:date:from:to:cc :subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:user-agent :x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; bh=1eU0gXPId2XeDSxLQrvo1LCUEIoZ5ARzzWt+c7okxkM=; b=gRAum5+7OKA6hII4uLVJ4BQ1Ih7inNY76Z5vreaSw59S+HI/0rAxi0/KnPjTf/ZiCU JjGczBB8iux05fsE7fg8aLEMirlKGFISc62O11Snk/KucJj6aax9wjBuZDVxaLfZkJDt wXXp3k3ZxlGn/ZERgWodrGHOk9FFmcVkLpx8A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references :user-agent:x-openpgp-key-id:x-openpgp-key-fingerprint:mime-version :content-type; b=A3a9oM1GJwfArDkmqCqeRwJdR5WsCGzABU7+VxLLgBAS1fqAQd2jbEcRk8d5QCWV2G /CNp/wAGsLztOUZAQXbm0L6B+/4zhPXJx4QHrHP56JCyLxrTbjK9wzC7IyTLNBMDMmUa //tMcaNsM9IJl0wjaa0J6vDVsKodpPf/3NSpw= Received: by 10.224.117.133 with SMTP id r5mr9753338qaq.133.1256786059740; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:14:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp-22.152.dialinfree.com (ppp-22.152.dialinfree.com [209.172.22.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm1006322qyk.7.2009.10.28.20.14.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: "J. Hellenthal" Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:14:09 -0400 From: jhell To: jhell In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20091028223242.GA26697@marge.bs.l> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x89D8547E X-OpenPGP-Key-Fingerprint: 85EF E26B 07BB 3777 76BE B12A 9057 8789 89D8 547E MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Bertram Scharpf , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Show nice columns of numers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:14:20 -0000 On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03, jhell@ wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:32, lists@ wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> my company is going to shoot a TV spot that will show me at work. >> The first thing my desktop will contain is some BSD/FreeBSD logo. >> >> As it will be a movie, not a photograph, I would like to have huge >> columns of numbers running over the screen or at least one window. >> Does somebody know a programm that produces such nice output? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Bertram >> >> >> > > > Nice output so far. I like seeing all these examples Polytropon's to be > specific. > > Here is another one for you that is a little unique that you might not see on > every computer out there. > > Integer Sequences database located here: > fetch http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/stripped.gz > > Put some real previous work back to work!. ;) > > sed & awk that file to your liking to change commas spaces or such around so > it can be spilled out to a terminal then toil the end result with the > something like the following. > > # For bourne style shells. > for line in `zcat stripped.gz`; do echo $line && sleep .09 ;done > > The above command on that file will show you the reason why some awk'ing > might be needed but that's up to you. > > Best of luck. > > For extra added effect make things a little bit larger. xterm -fn 12x24 -geometry 80x30+0+0 -bw 0 -T "Your favorite title here." -- Wed Oct 28 23:10:31 2009 -0500 jhell