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banner
— print
large banner on printer
banner |
[-d ] [-t ]
[-w width]
message ... |
Banner
prints a large, high quality banner
on the standard output. If the message is omitted, it prompts for and reads
one line of its standard input.
The output should be printed on paper of the appropriate width, with no breaks between the pages.
The following options are available:
The banner
utility first appeared in
AT&T UNIX 6.
Mark Horton
Several ASCII characters are not defined, notably <, >, [, ], \, ^, _, {, }, |, and ~. Also, the characters ", ', and & are funny looking (but in a useful way.)
The -w
option is implemented by skipping
some rows and columns. The smaller it gets, the grainier the output.
Sometimes it runs letters together.
Messages are limited to 1024 characters in length.
June 21, 2021 | macOS 14.6 |