The “figlet” application is a cool command line program that generates _place_holder; text-art output.
Here are some examples from www.figlet.org:
_ _ _ _ _ _
| (_) | _____ | |_| |__ (_)___
| | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __|
| | | < __/ | |_| | | | \__ \
|_|_|_|\_\___| \__|_| |_|_|___/
. oooo o8o
.o8 `888 `"'
.ooooo. oooo d8b .o888oo 888 .oo. oooo .oooo.o
d88' `88b `888""8P 888 888P"Y88b `888 d88( "8
888 888 888 888 888 888 888 `"Y88b.
888 888 888 888 . 888 888 888 o. )88b
`Y8bod8P' d888b "888" o888o o888o o888o 8""888P'
_/ _/ _/
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_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/
_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/
It is available from the package manager in various Linux distributions. _place_holder; In Ubuntu, apt is an easy way to install it.
$ sudo apt-get install figlet
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