hollywood(1)

💖 hollywood(1) — the manual, but make it main character 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about hollywood, because this little script is genuinely iconic and it lives in section 1 of the manual (that's the "user commands" section, iykyk).

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✨ NAME ✨

hollywood — fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble

no fr, that's literally it. that's the whole job. and it eats. 💅

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

hollywood [-s|--splits SPLITS] [-d|--delay DELAY]

that's the whole vibe. two optional flags, zero drama (well, actually, all the drama, but like, the good kind). 🎀

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🎛️ OPTIONS 🎛️

• -d|--delay DELAY — how many seconds to wait before it rearranges the splits. it's giving pacing. and heads up, default=10s, so it's a chill lil ten-second groove unless you say otherwise.
• -s|--splits SPLITS — how many splits to divide your screen into. because more panes = more chaos = more cinematic. the default is 2*nproc, capped at available widgets — so on a beefy machine you get a whole wall of them, but only as many as there are widgets to fill them with, no cap. 🦋

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🎬 DESCRIPTION 🎬

This utility will fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble.

It will split your byobu(1) console into a multiple panes of genuine technobabble, perfectly suitable for any Hollywood geek melodrama.

It is particularly suitable on any number of computer consoles in the background of any excellent schlock technothriller.

so basically: you run it, your terminal becomes twelve panes of pure unfiltered "I'm hacking the mainframe" energy, and anyone walking past your desk assumes you're defusing a bomb or working at NASA. you're not. you're just vibing. ✨

It's also the move when you need a bunch of consoles running in the background of a schlock technothriller. absolute scene-stealer, no notes. 👑

To quit, press Ctrl+C to kill the hollywood script itself.

bestie, remember that one — Ctrl+C is your exit. there is no fancy quit button. just yeet it and go. 😭

Also, extremely thoughtful of it: hollywood tries not to overwhelm your system by running widgets with the minimum scheduling priority per nice(1). so it's dramatic on screen but lowkey polite to your CPU. respectful king behaviour. 🫶

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🔒 SECURITY NOTE 🔒

okay, important one, read this part fr fr:

Some hollywood widgets display real system information such as running processes, log files, network interface statistics, and file system details. This information could be sensitive in some environments.

⚠️ like. those panes look fake. they are not always fake. if you're streaming, screen-sharing, or presenting to a room, that is a whole lot of real system info rendered in a very public way. vibe check accordingly. 💀

For demonstrations or presentations, consider running hollywood inside a container:

docker run -it --rm dustinkirkland/hollywood

container = little isolation bubble = your actual system stays off-camera. slay. 🐳🌸

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

• byobu(1) — the console it splits into panes, the whole stage crew
• nice(1) — the scheduling priority thing it plays nice with
• https://hollywood.computer — go look, it's cute

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the Apache2 License.

The complete text of the Apache2 License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0 on Debian/Ubuntu systems.

so credit where credit is due, bestie — they built this whole technobabble machine for us. ✨

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and that's the whole page, we're done here. this version of hollywood's manual is brought to you by the hollywood command itself, dated 15 December 2014, and honestly? it ate and left no crumbs. 💅🎀 bye bestie, go press Ctrl+C on something. 🦋