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Cool (And Possibly Useless) Commands In Terminal

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#1

Hi,

If anybody has discovered weird and amusing commands in the terminal, that are probably useless, can you please put them here for the enjoyment of others.

The only two that I have found:

sudo apt-get moo (A cow comes up)

factor x (The x can be any number and it will tell you the prime factors of it)

Well, because I'm a noob those are the only two I have, please, expand my collection.

Rock On

#2

Neat. Moved to correct forum.

#3

sudo apt-get install cowsay

And then:

cowsay Yourmessage

or

cowthink Yourmessage

#4

type in 'fortune' (it gives u a...FORTUNE! lol). also type in 'banner' (then type in a message, and it will recreate the message using #'s)