NYANCAT(1)

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✨ NYANCAT ✨

okay bestie, sit down, because today we're talking about nyancat — the terminal-based Pop Tart Cat animation. yes. THE cat. in your terminal. with color. 💖

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

nyancat [ -hitn ] [-f frames]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

nyancat is an animated, color, ANSI-text program that renders a loop of the classic Nyan Cat animation. it's literally just the cat, flying through space, leaving a rainbow behind it, forever, in your terminal. iconic behavior tbh. 🐱🌈

it makes use of various ANSI escape sequences to render color — or, in the case of a VT220, it simply dumps text to the screen. no cap. so if you're on a VT220 you're getting the raw text experience and honestly? respect. 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -i, --intro — Show introduction / about information on startup. a little meet-and-greet before the cat does its thing 🫶
  • -I, --skip-intro — Skip the introduction in telnet mode. not the vibe today? skip it ✨
  • -t, --telnet — Enable telnet mode. cat goes online fr fr 🌐
  • -n, --no-counter — Do not display the timer. no clock, just cat 😌
  • -s, --no-title — Do not set the titlebar text. your window title stays unbothered 🙈
  • -e, --no-clear — Do not clear the display between frames. the frames just stack up, no wiping, very artsy 🎨
  • -f, --frames — Display the requested number of frames, then quit. you get a set number of frames and then it's over 😭
  • -r, --min-rows — Crop the animation from the top. ✂️
  • -R, --max-rows — Crop the animation from the bottom. ✂️
  • -c, --min-cols — Crop the animation from the left. ✂️
  • -C, --max-cols — Crop the animation from the right. ✂️
  • -W, --width — Crop the animation to the given width. 📏
  • -H, --height — Crop the animation to the given height. 📏
  • -h, --help — Show help message and exit. the classic escape hatch 💀

🌸 HOMEPAGE 🌸

💜 AUTHOR 💜

nyancat was written by K. Lange <klange@toaruos.org>.

This manual page was written by Jonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

bestie, that's the whole page. go run it. go watch the cat. you deserve it 💖✨🌈

and for the record, this lil doc is dated February, 2014, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section as NYANCAT(1) — so yeah, main character energy since 2014, periodt. 👑🦋

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