NAME

lolcat - rainbow coloring effect for text console display

SYNOPSIS

lolcat [options] [files] ...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the lolcat command.

lolcat is a program that concatenates files, or standard input, to standard output (like the generic cat), and adds rainbow coloring to it.

OPTIONS

-p X, --spread=X: Inclination of the rainbow stripes
(character widths per line hight; high values (>1000) give almost horizonal stripes, low values (0.1) almost vertical ones; default: 3.0).
-F X, --freq=X: Frequency of the rainbow effect.
(low values around 0.0001 give almost monochromous screens; default: 0.1).
-S X, --seed=X: Initial value for the random number generator; 0 means automatic.
(default: 0).
-a, --animate: Fade every line through an animation before printing the next one.
-d X, --duration=X: Duration of the animation.
(number of steps before showing next line; default: 12)
-s X, --speed=X: Speed of the animation.
(frame rate, ie. number of steps per second; default: 20)
-i, --invert: Inverts the background and foreground colors.
-t, --truecolor: Enables 24-bit truecolor mode.
-f, --force: Force color even when stdout is not a tty.
-v, --version: Shows lolcat version.
-h, --help: Shows options summary.

EXAMPLES

Typical combinations of lolcat include other programs that generate text:
Large colorful words can be written like this:

echo "KTHXBAI" | toilet | lolcat

Cows are popular, come in all colors, and tell random epigrams:

fortune | cowsay | lolcat -a

AUTHOR

lolcat was written by Moe <moe@busyloop.net>.