cacaserver(1)

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💖 cacaserver — the telnet server for libcaca 💖

okay bestie, welcome to cacaserver(1), a manual page from the General Commands Manual section of the libcaca docs. it's short, it's sweet, it's literally serving looks over the network. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

cacaserver — telnet server for libcaca

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cacaserver

that's it. no flags, no arguments, no drama. she takes zero options and eats her input from stdin like a good little main character 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: cacaserver reads libcaca animation files straight off its standard input and serves them up as ANSI art on network port 51914. it's giving "your terminal art, but make it a broadcast" 💅

and how do you even make those animation files, you ask? not me about to change your life: any libcaca program can make them. you just set the CACA_DRIVER environment variable to raw, then pipe that program's standard output into cacaserver. boom. art pipeline. periodt ✨

then, like, clients can connect to port 51914 using telnet or netcat and just. watch the output. iconic behaviour fr fr 🌈

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

here's the whole thing in action, no cap:

CACA_DRIVER=raw cacademo | cacaserver

telnet localhost 51914

first line: raw driver, cacademo piped straight into cacaserver. second line: you, connecting like the icon you are 🥰

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • cacaplay(1) — go say hi to her too, she's family 💜

💖 AUTHOR 💖

this manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>. ty bestie for the docs, we love to see it 🫶

and that's the whole page, babes. this one shipped as part of libcaca, dated 2006-11-10 — vintage but still slaying, we love an elder icon 💅🌸💖

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