banner (Unix)

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The banner program displays a large ASCII art version of input text. It is commonly included in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. There are two common varieties: one, which prints text horizontally for display to a terminal, and another which prints text in much larger letters for output to a line printer.

A related, and more flexible, program is figlet, which can display text in different fonts and orientations.

[edit] Example output

From the terminal-oriented banner program:

$ banner Hello!
#     #                                   ###
#     #  ######  #       #        ####    ###
#     #  #       #       #       #    #   ###
#######  #####   #       #       #    #    #
#     #  #       #       #       #    #
#     #  #       #       #       #    #   ###
#     #  ######  ######  ######   ####    ###

One letter from the printer-oriented banner program in Mac OS X:

$ banner -w80 "a"
                         #####
                       ######### 
                    ###############        ###
                   ################      ###### 
                  ##################     ######## 
                  #####         #####    #########
                  ####           ####      ##  ### 
                  ###            ####           ## 
                  ###            ###            ## 
                  ###            ###           ### 
                   ####         ###           #### 
                     #############################
                   ############################## 
                  ############################## 
                  ############################ 
                  ########################### 
                  ### 
                  # 
                  #

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