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title: Pokéshell date: 2016-01-01 23:30 category: linux tags: pokemon, shell, bash, fish, imagemagick, aur slug: pokeshell
A friend of me had the idea of a shell displaying a random pokémon on launch. I liked the idea and couldn't resist to implement it over christmas.
What the package does is, it downloads all pokémon images in a defined range which is 1-151 by default (I'm old these are the ones I know) and converts the images to escape sequences. These are saved in /usr/share/pokeshell.
Now when you open a new shell you could display one of them randomly by putting this code in your ~/.bashrc:
cat /usr/share/pokeshell/\$((\$RANDOM % 151 + 1)).pokemon
Or if you use fish like me put this in your ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish:
function fish_greeting
set r (random)
cat /usr/share/pokeshell/(math \"\$r % 151 + 1\").pokemon
end
The images are downloaded using the Pokéapi. For the conversation I use Imagemagick and a tool called img2xterm.
You can find a package for all of this in the AUR.