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Linux Fun – How to Create ASCII Text Banners in Terminal

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Aaron Kili
Apr 23, 2018

Tecmint: Recently, we have explained about how to randomly display predefined ASCII art on the Linux terminal, using a program called ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen. In this article, we will show how to create your own appealing ASCII text banners from plain text, using two command-line utilities called FIGlet and TOIlet.

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Aaron Kili

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