Fetch-master 6000

Simple dilbert themed fetching tool for Linux and BSD.

ASCII art of Dilbert is taken from the Kakoune text editor ASCII art of Alice, PHB is taken from Christopher Johnson's collection ASCII art of the Wolf is taken from asciiart.eu ASCII art of the Astronaut is taken from this site

Screenshots

Installation

Its just a perl script download it, make it executable and put somewhere in your $PATH

For Gentoo refer to the XDream's Repository For Arch users its available in the AUR as fm6000

Via install script

sh -c "$(curl https://codeberg.org/anhsirk0/fetch-master-6000/raw/branch/main/install.sh)"

install script help page

sh -c "$(curl https://codeberg.org/anhsirk0/fetch-master-6000/raw/branch/main/install.sh)" -- -h

install script options

• use --install-path option or set "install_path" variable(this variable defaults to $HOME/.local/bin, if it does not exist /usr/local/bin is used)
• use --root(-r), --noroot(-nr) or set "root" variable(this is automatically detected via stat if "root" var is not set and options are not used)
• use --dry-run(-dr) to dry run fm6000

example

sh -c "$(curl https://codeberg.org/anhsirk0/fetch-master-6000/raw/branch/main/install.sh)" -- --install-path=/usr/bin --root

or

install_path=/usr/bin root=1 sh -c "$(curl https://codeberg.org/anhsirk0/fetch-master-6000/raw/branch/main/install.sh)"

Manually

with wget

wget https://codeberg.org/anhsirk0/fetch-master-6000/raw/branch/main/fm6000.pl -O fm6000

or

with curl

curl https://codeberg.org/anhsirk0/fetch-master-6000/raw/branch/main/fm6000.pl --output fm6000

making it executable

chmod +x fm6000

copying it to $PATH (~/.local/bin/ , this step is optional)

cp fm6000 ~/.local/bin/

Usage

if fm6000 in $PATH

fm6000

runing the script

./fm6000

or

perl fm6000

or

bash fm6000

Displaying custom ASCII from file

fm6000 -f arch_logo.txt

About custom ascii_art file

every line should be of same length (use spaces if needed) atleast 10 lines is required (use empty spaces lines if needed)

Say

fm6000 -say "Hello world!"

Geometry

Available Options

• -c or --color=STR Base color
• -w or --wally Display Wally
• -dog or --dogbert Display Dogbert
• -al or --alice Display Alice
• -phb or --phb Display Pointy haired Boss
• -as or --asok Display Asok
• -nd or --not_de To use 'WM' instead of 'DE'
• -o or --os=STR OS name
• -k or --kernel=STR Kernel version
• -d or --de=STR Desktop environment name
• -sh or --shell=STR Shell name
• -u or --uptime=STR Uptime
• -p or --package=INT Number of packages
• -v or --vnstat=STR Use vnstat instead of kernel
• -f or --file Display art from file
• -r or --random Display Random Art
• -rd or --random-dir=STR Directory for random ascii art
• -s or --say=STR Say provided text instead of info
• -sf or --say-file=STR Say text from a file instead of info
• -m or --margin=INT Spaces on the left side of info
• -g or --gap=INT Spaces between info and info_value (default 10)
• -l or --length=INT Length of the board (default 13)
• -h or --help Print this help message

Available colors

black red green yellow blue magenta cyan bright_black bright_red bright_green bright_yellow bright_blue bright_magenta bright_cyan random

Randomization

For random color:

fm6000 -color "random"

or

fm6000 -c "random"

For random character:

fm6000 -random

or

fm6000 -r

For random ascii from a directory:

fm6000 --random-dir "directory_name"

or

fm6000 -rd "directory_name"

Troubleshooting

If your distro is not {arch, debian, fedora, freeBSD, gentoo, venom, solus} based fetch-master-6000 wont be able to detect number of packages In that case you have to specify number of packages yourself For example: On Solus (eopkg) Solus is already supported command to list all istalled packages is:

eopkg list-installed is slow because its prints a lot of info, use ls /var/lib/eopkg/package instead

eopkg list-installed

to count packages pipe the list to wc -l

eopkg list-installed | wc -l

make it an alias to avoid typing it everytime

alias fm6000='fm6000 -p $(eopkg list-installed | wc -l)'

Similiarly for other distros

fm6000 -p $(pacman -Q | wc -l)

Can't locate experimental.pm

fm6000 uses experimental module to do a smartmatch for WMs .This module is pre-installed on most of the distros, if for some reason its not present. Use your package manager to install perl-experimental module.