cbonsai(6)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, meet cbonsai — it grows bonsai trees in your terminal 🌳💖 (and it lives in the Games Manual, section 6, if you were wondering where to find it).

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cbonsai [OPTION]...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

cbonsai is a beautifully random bonsai tree generator. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it makes little trees, they're different every single time, and honestly? obsessed. no cap. 🌱✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -l, --live — live mode bestie!! it shows you every single step of the growth, like you're watching it happen in real time 👀🌱
• -t, --time=TIME — in live mode, wait TIME secs between steps of growth. must be larger than 0 (yes, actually, it HAS to be) [default: 0.03]
• -i, --infinite — infinite mode: it just keeps growing trees forever and ever and ever 🌈♾️
• -w, --wait=TIME — in infinite mode, wait TIME between each tree generation [default: 4.00]
• -S, --screensaver — screensaver mode ✨ it's equivalent to -liWC, and it quits on any keypress. very "leave it on the monitor and walk away" energy 💅
• -m, --message=STR — attach a message next to the tree 🫶 cute little caption, tree's plus-one
• -b, --base=INT — which ascii-art plant base to use. 0 is none, so no pot, just vibes 🪴
• -c, --leaf=LIST — list of comma-delimited strings randomly chosen for leaves [default: &]
• -k, --color=LIST — list of 4 comma-delimited color indices (0-255) for each of dark leaves, dark wood, light leaves, and light wood, in that order (order matters bestie, don't shuffle) [default: 2,3,10,11]
• -M, --multiplier=INT — branch multiplier; higher -> more branching (0-20) [default: 5]
• -L, --life=INT — life; higher -> more growth (0-200) [default: 32]
• -p, --print — print the tree to the terminal when it's finished 🖨️✨
• -s, --seed=INT — seed the random number generator, for when you want the same tree twice (rare behavior, respect it)
• -W, --save=FILE — save progress to FILE [default: ~/.cache/cbonsai]
• -C, --load=FILE — load progress from FILE [default: ~/.cache/cbonsai]
• -v, --verbose — increase output verbosity, for the nosy ones (me, I'm nosy) 🙈
• -h, --help — show help 💖

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Maintained by John Allbritten <me@johnallbritten.com>, who is assisted by other open source contributors 🫶💜. For more information about cbonsai development, see <https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai>.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go grow a tree 🌳💅

sign-off time: this is cbonsai(6) from the Games Manual, dated 2025-08-17 — periodt, that's the whole thing 🎀✨🦋