gocat

A blazing fast lolcat replacement.

Building

Building requires a functioning go installation.

• Clone the repository
• go build gocat.go

Usage

gocat [OPTION]... [FILE]...

• -a, --animate — Animate the output
• -d, --duration=<d> — Animation duration (default: 12)
  • Animation duration is specified in number of frames per line
• -f, --force — Force color output
  • By default, gocat does not rainbowify messages if its output is redirected
  • Useful for writing a colourful message to /etc/motd, etc
• -F, --freq=<f> — Rainbow frequency (default: 2)
  • Defines how much the color changes for each character
• -i, --invert — Invert the output
• -n, --number — Number all output lines
• -O, --offset=<o> — Vertical offset (default: 2)
  • Same as -F, but for lines.
• -S, --seed=<s> — RNG seed, 0 means random (default: 0)
• -s, --speed=<s> — Animation speed (default: 20)
  • Animation speed is specified in frames per second
• -h, --help — Display the help text
• --version — Display version information