Random CLI ASCII art print utility built in rust. The application can be added to your shell to give out random ascii art when a terminal instance is opened.

Application is compliled using the nightly release of rust, so it is recommended to have that over the stable release. The recommended version of rust is 1.66.0 or over.

It is a very simple application and super easy to install. In order to get this application running follow the following steps:

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/gkesh/artsci.git

2. Enter the project folder

cd artsci

3. Run the install script (as superuser)

sudo ./install.sh

4. Add the artsci command to the terminal shell of your choice

# For my fish terminal, I added the command below to the ~/.config/fish/config.fish
artsci

# You can also pipe it through lolcat to give the extra rainbow color
artsci | lolcat

This should install the application to the system, please test by running the cli app and it should display an in-built ascii art.

artsci

As for configuration, currently you can only add new ascii art and you can do this by creating a new file with extension ars inside ~/.config/artsci/ascii. By defualt you have 6 different ascii arts.

Disclaimer

I claim no ownership to the art used in this app and shown in the screenshots. All of the arts used were pulled from ASCII Art. Please visit there, if you wanna add some more designes to your instance.