Tyler Cipriani Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License Copyright © 2017 Tyler Cipriani https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/ Tyler Cipriani ikiwiki 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_1_4529cffac9b7b7c1d32333bd5462374d/ ksauerf 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2014-11-11T19:59:30Z <p>This seems pretty cool but I get “Unable to access jarfile ./util-say.jar” Any ideas?</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_2_36e22b525690379f90c02388fba0c543/ thcipriani 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2014-11-12T08:56:04Z <p>Make sure you have the util-say.jar file (<code>find /path/to/util-say -name 'util- say.jar'</code>), make sure your permissions are correct (I assume that read permissions are probably fine, but you may need execute—I also assume that the git repo likely has correct permissions), and also make sure you’re in the correct directory when you run ./img2ponysay—probably won’t work running <code>/home/user/Downloads/util-say/img2ponysay</code>.</p> <p>I say “Probably” because I’ve never tested that theory.</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_3_e8be9ba9a956de987d83eade0a9aa625/ jeremymbonney 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2014-11-20T21:07:34Z Please do a youtube video this is amazing and needs to be shared https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_4_8a1dc2f094bd91649f5d41337fa7f4f8/ igmtsaol 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-03-05T12:43:33Z <p>img2ponysay keeps complaining about “Unable to access jarfile ./util-say.jar”, how do i generate or download this file? i can’t find it online</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_5_2d286ae7bf17a1bcf5fcf790d91ec131/ thcipriani 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-03-06T08:34:39Z <p>I <em>think</em> the jar used to be included in the util-say repo. You may have to generate it now: try running <code>make</code> inside the util-say repo and see where that gets you.</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_6_56318d6a3a687b602b544dada8c3b82d/ igmtsaol 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-03-06T09:43:43Z <p>yup, make did the trick! thank you! its now working but with a small caveat (easy to fix anyway). When i run cat on the generated TXT or when is displayed as the MOTD, some characaters display before the image:</p> <p><span class="math inline"><em>b</em><em>a</em><em>l</em><em>l</em><em>o</em><em>o</em><em>n</em>5</span></p> <p>$$</p> <p>$$</p> <p>$$</p> <p>Fixed by editing the TXT file and erasing those lines at the begining, but, is it caused by something i missed? is there a way to prevent that from happening?</p> <p>I’m trying to implement a dynamic auto-generated MOTD</p> <p>BTW, thanks so much for the reply and the tut! <img src="https://tylercipriani.com/smileys/smile.png" alt=":)" /></p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_7_af3bb80ee0383f7c3fc76560e8f908d2/ thcipriani 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-03-06T10:08:47Z <p><span class="citation">@sigilo:disqus</span> I don’t think you missed anything. I think it’s just how that program is designed: it’s meant to make files for use with ponysay <a href="https://github.com/erkin/ponysay">https://github.com/erkin/ponys…</a> which is what you’re seeing.</p> <p>You could try something as simple as <code>./img2ponysay [whatever] | tr -d '$balon5\\'</code> or cook up something with grep -Ev</p> <p>Sorry not much help—never tried to generate art dynamically.</p> https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2014/05/22/creating-baller-useful-motd-ascii-art/comment_8_3aad8f558184cac00ccf5541a0dafb8e/ igmtsaol 2018-06-13T19:34:11Z 2015-03-06T10:55:43Z <p>I’ll try grep, thanks for your replies, awesome tutorial on generating the MOTD, congrats!</p>