I didn't want the fancy verion with all the extra info. Just the nifty ascii art. I got this working on my pi by doing the following: vi update-motd.sh Then pasted in the following: #!/bin/bash ip=`ip addr show scope global | grep inet | cut -d' ' -f6 | cut -d/ -f1` echo -e "\033[0;32m .~~. .~~. '. ...