banner command

banner command

can anyone give me a practical situation in which banner command is used ?


square gold fish

This question includes the assumption that everything must have a practical use (Try cowsay!)

Anyway, you could have a console script that could post its status ("GOOD", "BAD") in nice big letters so you could see it from across the room....


cmay

it have had a practical use once i think. but the only thing you can use it for now is to print a nice banner on a piece of paper if you redirect the out put to a printer. i read about it some time ago but i can not remember what the original use was and its also a very old program i think. but it is not written just for the fun of it that i am sure of.

xyz
one possible usage i could find is

/usr/games/banner -w50 Happy Birthday! |lpr