banner — Make Posters

Synopsis

/usr/bin/banner strings
					

Description

banner prints its arguments in large letters on the standard output, one argument per line, up to a maximum of 10 characters.

Examples

The following example prints happy birthday.

castle% banner happy birthday 

 #    #    ##    #####   #####    #   # 
 #    #   #  #   #    #  #    #    # # 
 ######  #    #  #    #  #    #     # 
 #    #  ######  #####   #####      # 
 #    #  #    #  #       #          # 
 #    #  #    #  #       #          # 
 #####      #    #####    #####  #    #  #####     ##     #   # 
 #    #     #    #    #     #    #    #  #    #   #  #     # # 
 #####      #    #    #     #    ######  #    #  #    #     # 
 #    #     #    #####      #    #    #  #    #  ######     # 
 #    #     #    #   #      #    #    #  #    #  #    #     # 
 #####      #    #    #     #    #    #  #####   #    #     # 

castle% 

In the following example, the word congratulations is 14 characters, so only the first 10 characters are displayed.

castle% banner congratulations #### #### # ...

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