irssi, figlet, greatness

ben
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:53:43 +0000

/alias figlet /exec - -o echo $0-| figlet -w 60 | awk -F% 'function randint(n){return int(33+n * rand())} {printf("x03%s%sn",randint(12),$1)}'

Combining the joys of shell scripting, figlet, irssi colour escape codes and two different kind of escape sequences, you can achieve the following...

Eternally useful, is it not?

Run the above code in irssi, then /figlet !