BANNER(6)

📦 version 2.17, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay so welcome to BANNER(6), bestie — this is the Games Manual entry for banner, and its whole main-character job is literally: print large banner on printer ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

banner [-w width] message ...

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So banner prints a large, high quality banner on the standard output. iconic behavior, no cap 💅

If the message is omitted, it prompts for and reads one line of its standard input. yes bestie, it will literally ask you for a line 🫶

If -w is given, the output is scrunched down from a width of 132 to width, suitable for a narrow terminal. scrunching! shrinking! fitting into the little terminal window! we love to see it 🌸

The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, with no breaks between the pages. periodt 🧚

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • -w width — scrunches the output down from a width of 132 to width, suitable for a narrow terminal.

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so this is the part where we keep it real 🙈

Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \, ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. not me trying to use those and getting nothing cute back 😭

Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.) funny-looking but useful is honestly a whole vibe 💅

The -w option is implemented by skipping some rows and columns. The smaller it gets, the grainier the output. Sometimes it runs letters together. so yeah, the more you scrunch, the more it gets crunchy — grainier output, sometimes letters running together, lowkey chaotic but that's the tradeoff ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Mark Horton — the author, the icon, the legend 🫶

mwah 💋 this BANNER(6) page comes from Debian, dated April 29, 1995 — slay, historical document, bestie ✨

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