Fun Commands in Linux

Varun
2 min readSep 24, 2021

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1.sl command:

SL stands for Steam Locomotive which is humorous program and was created by Toyoda Masashi to interrupt a user whenever he/she erroneously types ‘sl’ instead of ‘ls’ which is a very frequently used command to list files and folders.

SYNTAX : sl

Output of sl command:

2.Reverse and Factor command:

rev command is used to reverse the lines character-wise and factor command is used to print the prime factors of the given numbers, either given from command line or read from standard input.

#reverse of 123456789
SYNTAX : rev

987654321

factor of 111
SYNTAX : factor 111

3. Banner command:

Banner command in linux is used to print the ASCII character string in large letter to standard output.

#let’s print hello using banner
SYNTAX : banner hello

4. Cowsay command:

The cowsay command draws out little animals using ascii art in the terminal or shell.

SYNTAX : cowsay hello beautiful

5. Yes command:

Yes command in Linux is used to print a continuous output stream of given STRING .This command can definitely help you to manifest. JK.

SYNTAX : yes i am happy and rich

To stop the command from printing press Ctrl + C.

There are many more interesting commands like this such as:

date
zenity
echo
espeak-ng
xcowsay
curl
bb
aafire
cmatrix
toilet
lolcat

HOPE YOU LIKED THESE LINUX FUN COMMANDS ..

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