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The banner program displays a large ASCII art version of input text. It is commonly included in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. There are two common varieties: one, which prints text horizontally for display to a terminal, and another which prints text in much larger letters for output to a line printer.

A related, and more flexible, program is figlet, which can display text in different fonts and orientations.

Example output

From the terminal-oriented banner program: $ banner Hello! # # ### # # ###### # # #### ### # # # # # # # ### ####### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### # # ###### ###### ###### #### ###

One letter from the printer-oriented banner program in Mac OS X:

$ banner -w80 "a"
                         #####
                       ######### 
                    ###############        ###
                   ################      ###### 
                  ##################     ######## 
                  #####         #####    #########
                  ####           ####      ##  ### 
                  ###            ####           ## 
                  ###            ###            ## 
                  ###            ###           ### 
                   ####         ###           #### 
                     #############################
                   ############################## 
                  ############################## 
                  ############################ 
                  ########################### 
                  ### 
                  # 
                  #

See also

• List of Unix programs

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