Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in bash

Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by simonw on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:03PM (#27942016)

The implementation of this - a single, huge bash script - is actually a pretty neat thing to browse through if you want to improve your knowledge of bash.

I particularly enjoyed this function that returns the ASCII-art logo for the current platform: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/blob/017aa041d86340f2...

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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by woodruffw on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:10PM (#27942073)

> I particularly enjoyed this function that returns the ASCII-art logo for the current platform

I wonder how much of it is copied from screenfetch[1], which (I believe) is the "grandfather" for a lot of these kinds of information viewers.

I wrote my own version of screenfetch[2] a very long time ago, and I'm pretty sure I just ripped their ASCII-art directly :-)

[1]: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/blob/c3a47890441166...

[2]: https://github.com/woodruffw/screenfetch-c

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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by forgotpwd16 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:53PM (#27942468)

Relevant, Dylan had written a piece[0] on why he created Neofetch rather attempting to improve Screenfetch. It seems he later blanked the page, I guess due to being a bit heated.

[0]: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Neofetch-vs.-Scr...

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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by gexla on Sunday July 25, 2021 @01:15AM (#27946892)

GitHub Copilot strikes again.

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Re:Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in... by linspace on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:29PM (#27943760)

And it's actually developed as a single file. I do wonder if they have considered a solution like the sqlite amalgamation https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

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