random_ascii (rust version)

A totally useless but 'must have' bloatware (tribute to systemd)

random_ascii is a simple binary that picks a random ascii file in your collection, which fits in your current terminal (checking terminal and file size)...

This 'rust version' is something like ten times faster than the bash version but certainly more buggy (my first rust program) ...

Files are fully parsed just one time, and cached in fileDB, to offer better performance...

• currently tested on nothing (YOU'll tell me what !)
• copyleft, do what you want, copy, modify... sell if you can ;P
• use at your own risks (check your ascii files before !)
• it's shipped with just one tux.ascii test file to avoid security or copyright problems
• uses cargo for building, and for a better experience, you should install the dotacat package (default renderer)

Install

Install dotacat or a renderer of your choice shell cargo install dotacat or (if you don't have cargo) shell sudo apt install lolcat

Just put the randomascii binary (from ./latestrelease/) somewhere in your $PATH...

shell [[ "$(echo $PATH | grep '/usr/local/bin')" ]] && cp ./random_ascii /usr/local/bin/ ... or add the destination to your $PATH, ex :

```shell mkdir -p "${HOME}/bin" && cp ./latestrelease/randomascii "${HOME}/bin/random_ascii"

Check if you have this line in your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc ...

~/.profile

if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" fi

restart your term or source ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc ...

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Case 1 : you're already ok with the default options

• I want to use dotacat which is already installed
• my ascii repo is writable and at ${HOME}/.config/random_ascii/
• all my ascii files have the .ascii extension
• my prompt is just 1 line height shell random_ascii

Case 2 : you may want to change some option

• -p=path from your HOME directory, without leading or trailing slashes (must be writable to get the cache.bin active)
• -e=extension
• -h=prompt_height (will be subtracted to the height of the terminal, to filter files that are too tall to fit in)
• -r will reset cache db (just once, to force parsing files again) with obvious lower performance but fresh data
• -d=display_renderer (if you prefer cat or dot2acat or whatever...) shell random_ascii -p=Documents/my_ascii_files -e=txt -d=cat -h=4 -r