Steam Locomotive

It's hard to say how much this has enriched my life. Thanks to Brian Lavender for sharing it on SacLUG. Screen captures courtesy KSnapshot (very intuitive).

Installation: sudo apt-get install sl

Images

The default ("sl"):



Note: The default, it travels across the screen from right to left, with animated smoke and wheels.

"-a An accident seems to happen. You’ll feel pity for people who cry for help.":


Note: the same as the original except it shows two engineers saying "HelpHelp!".

"-l shows little one.":


"-F It flies.":


Note: the same as the original "sl" but it moves from the lower-right to the upper-left.

Brilliant. From the man page:

NAME
sl - display animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls.

SYNOPSIS
sl [ -alFe ]

DESCRIPTION
sl Displays animations aimed to correct users who accidentally enter sl instead of ls. SL stands for Steam Locomotive.

OPTIONS
-a An accident seems to happen. You’ll feel pity for people who cry for help.

-l shows little one.

-F It flies.

-e Allow interrupt by Ctrl+C.

SEE ALSO
ls(1)

BUGS
It rarely shows contents of current directory.

AUTHOR
sl was written by Toyoda Masashi . This manual page was written by Brian Ristuccia and
Kenshi Muto for the Debian GNU/Linux system but may be used by others under the same license as sl itself.