Re: [Patch v3 0/2] Remove figlet from the source tree

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 14:25 +1300, Matthew Daley wrote:
> Aww. I was gonna submit a replacement shell one-liner, like this:
> 
> $ banner () { f=`mktemp`; for c in `echo -n "$1" | od -An -b`; do tail
> -n+$(((0$c - 32) * $3 + $4)) $2 | head -n6 | cut -b2- | paste -d@ $f -
> > $f.; mv $f{.,}; done; tr -d @ < $f | tr $ ' '; rm $f; }
> $ banner "Xen 4.4-blah" xen/tools/figlet/xen.flf 6 16
> __  __               _  _       _  _        _      _         _
> \ \/ /  ___  _ __   | || |     | || |      | |__  | |  __ _ | |__
>  \  /  / _ \| '_ \  | || |_    | || |_  __ | '_ \ | | / _` || '_ \
>  /  \ |  __/| | | | |__   _| _ |__   _||__|| |_) || || (_| || | | |
> /_/\_\ \___||_| |_|    |_|  (_)   |_|      |_.__/ |_| \__,_||_| |_|

Wowza!

Put the keyboard down and step away from the shell! ;-)

Ian.