6 Interesting Funny Commands of Linux (Fun in Terminal) – Part II

In our past following articles, we’ve shown some useful articles on some funny commands of Linux, which shows that Linux is not as complex as it seems and can be fun if we know how to use it. Linux command line can perform any complex task very easily and with perfection and can be interesting and joyful.

1. 20 Funny Commands of Linux – Part I
2. Fun in Linux Terminal – Play with Word and Character Counts

Funny Linux Commands

The former Post comprises of 20 funny Linux Commands/Script (and subcommands) which was highly appreciated by our readers. The other post, though not that much popular as former comprises of Commands/ Scripts and Tweaks which lets you play with text files, words and strings.

This post aims at bringing some new fun commands and one-liner scripts which is going to rejoice you.

1. pv Command

You might have seen simulating text in movies. It appears as, it is being typed in real time. Won’t it be nice, if you can have such an effect in terminal?

This can be achieved, by installing ‘pv‘ command in your Linux system by using ‘apt‘ or ‘yum‘ tool. Let’s install ‘pv‘ command as shown.

# yum install pv   [On RedHat based Systems]
# sudo apt-get install pv         [On Debian based Systems]

Once, ‘pv‘ command installed successfully on your system, let’s try to run the following one liner command to see the real time text effect on the screen.

$ echo "Tecmint[dot]com is a community of Linux Nerds and Geeks" | pv -qL 10 

pv command in action

Note: The ‘q‘ option means ‘quite’, no output information and option ‘L‘ means the Limit of Transfer of bytes per second. The number value can be adjusted in either direction (must be integer) to get desired simulation of text.

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