lolcat

Adds rainbow color gradients to terminal output, often piped with cowsay.

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About lolcat

lolcat is a command-line tool that adds rainbow color gradients to whatever text is piped through it, and is commonly chained together with tools like FIGlet and cowsay for decorative terminal output. It is open source and runs on macOS and Linux.

Strengths

  • Simple pipe-based design chains easily with other terminal toys
  • Widely recognized novelty tool within the terminal customization community

Limitations

  • Purely cosmetic, with no functional monitoring or productivity purpose
  • No listed Windows build

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source.
License
Open source, license not stated
Developer
busyloop
Platforms
macOS, Linux, Command line
How it runs
Downloadable app
Best suited for
Adds rainbow color gradients to terminal output, often piped with cowsay
Categories
CLI tools
Last verified
Added
Provenance
Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (ASCII & Terminal Art); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.

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