Raspberry Pi ASCII Art

Hi Folks,

I was lucky enough yesterday to receive my raspberry pi yesterday and set about setting it up and customising it a little.

Whilst doing that I decided to make some pretty ascii art for the login screen



It took some time to get the colours right, but I didn't think it was too bad for a first attempt

If you want to use it, you can download it here https://www.dropbox.com/s/7yrfpllwmx7ozfd/issue.txt

then just save it as /etc/issue to make it show up when logging in

If anyone else has made anything, I'd be interested to see what other people come up with

Martin

[stevepdp]

This is pretty cool, thanks.

For anybody curious as to how the colour codes work, they've been fairly well documented here.

Came up with this

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   .~~.   .~~.
  '. \ ' ' / .'
   .~ .~~~..~.
  : .~.'~'.~. :
 ~ (   ) (   ) ~
( : '~'.~.'~' : )
 ~ .~ (   ) ~. ~
  (  : '~' :  ) Raspberry Pi
   '~ .~~~. ~'
       '~'


Script to output in colour

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#!/bin/bash
echo "$(tput setaf 2)
   .~~.   .~~.
  '. \ ' ' / .'$(tput setaf 1)
   .~ .~~~..~.
  : .~.'~'.~. :
 ~ (   ) (   ) ~
( : '~'.~.'~' : )
 ~ .~ (   ) ~. ~
  (  : '~' :  ) $(tput sgr0)Raspberry Pi$(tput setaf 1)
   '~ .~~~. ~'
       '~'
$(tput sgr0)"


The message isn't showing up for me.

Using debian.

On other machines I've edited /etc/motd.tail so I tried that here, but to no avail.

Any ideas?

Raspi (88)

Nvm, it works after a reboot.

in debian:

/etc/motd.tail edits /var/run/motd on boot

/etc/motd is symlinked to /var/run/motd

/etc/motd is read by login and displayed

Came up with this

I've been able to incorporate this alongside an Arch Linux | ARM ASCII too... I will of course say credit to the respective authors of each mind - I'm useless creatively speaking. But this is how it appears on my terminal:


But If its any help to anyone, feel free to download the motd file from this page:
http://sjjones85.servebeer.com/files.html

I made my own remix and an install script: https://gist.github.com/gists/3023588

Sorry, I think I'm being stupid. I'm putting this directly into /etc/motd :

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$(tput setaf 2)
       .~~.   .~~.
      '. \ ' ' / .'$(tput setaf 1)
       .~ .~~~..~.    $(tput sgr0)                   _                          _ $(tput setaf 1)
      : .~.'~'.~. :   $(tput sgr0)   ___ ___ ___ ___| |_ ___ ___ ___ _ _    ___|_|$(tput setaf 1)
     ~ (   ) (   ) ~  $(tput sgr0)  |  _| .'|_ -| . | . | -_|  _|  _| | |  | . | |$(tput setaf 1)
    ( : '~'.~.'~' : ) $(tput sgr0)  |_| |__,|___|  _|___|___|_| |_| |_  |  |  _|_|$(tput setaf 1)
     ~ .~ (   ) ~. ~  $(tput sgr0)              |_|                 |___|  |_|    $(tput setaf 1)
      (  : '~' :  )
       '~ .~~~. ~'
           '~'
$(tput sgr0)


^Looks messed up here but you get the point...

But that's exactly what I'm getting straight out, no colours. I also tried putting it in quotes and after an 'echo' but still the same thing. It's not interpreting it, it's just being dumped out literally.

@Igneosaur

you have to paste the gist code in a different file, and run it as a script (with sudo). it will update the motd file itself

Looks good!

Should be a included into something like an SSH/FTP or Telnet welcome message! lol

update-motd anyone? Anyone?

http://man.he.net/man5/update-motd

Hey guys, I've got my art all hammered out. When I run it in terminal as sudo sh /etc/issue it shows properly in terminal. Upon restart though, I see the regular grey text as with the color code mixed in. I'm a super noob to unix systems and this is as far as I could get myself :/

I made my own remix and an install script: https://gist.github.com/gists/3023588

I want to use your install script, but the link is not working anymore.

Looks great. Thanks guys!

@tgwaste what's the code your using for the extra info? i like that mix of art and information.
thanks!

hello mink, here is a link to my welcome.sh which has everything you need.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61083309/www/content/welcome.sh

thanks!

@tgwaste: How can I run your shell script as message of the day in SSH?

@borsitsb : cron could do the job I think.

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crontab -e

Then just add a new command, it can look like that for example, if you want to update your welcome message every hour :
(maybe cron and crontab are not strictly the same thing, I'm not sure about that)

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* 1  * * * welcome.sh >> /etc/motd

When it is launched manually, all works well. However, done by cron, the text is there but all colors are missing...

Does someone has any idea about what is wrong ?

welcome.sh is a script. motd is not. welcome uses the command tput to set the colors but motd wont be able to do that, you will have to do colors probably like: ^[[1;XXm which is kind of a pain.

I renamed 'welcome.sh' to '01-welcome', then I moved it to '/etc/update-motd.d' folder and I waited for 10 minutes and nothing happened. What should I set?

@borsitsb : I can't really help you about this, I am not using update-motd. If I remember well, it is depreciated. I'm just using a cron job on the root account (a bit dirty maybe) and it does the trick.
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I managed to update my /etc/motd with colors, using the awful color codes :
It is actually a mix between two codes given above.

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#!/bin/sh
ip=`ip addr show scope global | grep inet | cut -d' ' -f6 | cut -d/ -f1`
up=`uptime | awk -F"up " '{print $2}' | awk -F"," '{print $1}'`
used=`df -h | grep 'dev/root' | awk '{print $3}'`
avail=`df -h | grep 'dev/root' | awk '{print $4}'`

echo "\033[0;32m
    .~~.   .~~.
   '. \ ' ' / .'\033[0;31m
    .~ .~~~..~.    \033[0;37m                   _                          _ \033[0;31m
   : .~.'~'.~. :   \033[0;37m   ___ ___ ___ ___| |_ ___ ___ ___ _ _    ___|_|\033[0;31m
  ~ (   ) (   ) ~  \033[0;37m  |  _| .'|_ -| . | . | -_|  _|  _| | |  | . | |\033[0;31m
 ( : '~'.~.'~' : ) \033[0;37m  |_| |__,|___|  _|___|___|_| |_| |_  |  |  _|_|\033[0;31m
  ~ .~ (   ) ~. ~  \033[0;37m              |_|                 |___|  |_|    \033[0;31m
   (  : '~' :  )
    '~ .~~~. ~'
        '~'

    \033[0;34m`hostname -f`
    \033[1;30m$ip
    \033[1;34mUsed | Free
    $used | $avail
    \033[1;30mUp. : $up
    \033[0;30m" > $1

And in crontab :

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0 1  * * * /path/to/updateMotd.sh /etc/motd

Edited crontab command, it was totally wrong...

Thank you! It is working now . I'm beginner in Linux unfortunately, so I didn't know I should grant execute permission for that file either, but I managed it.