Tech Tip: Using Figlet to Spice Up Your Scripts

Shell Scripts are very useful but not all that fun to look at. They have simple user input and output text. But, there is a way to spice up your scripts and make them a bit more eye catching with a simple program called “Figlet”.

Figlet is in the repositories for most distributions of Linux and is very simple to use. If you’ve used the “echo” command (which you probably have) you already know how to use the basic functionality of Figlet. Here’s an example of “echo” and “Figlet” next to each other…

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