Fun with Mac Terminal’s ‘banner’ Command

Dave Hamilton

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Fun with Mac Terminal’s ‘banner’ Command

Mac Geek Gab listener Alex points us to a fun Mac Terminal command called “banner”, and its usage is simple. Launch Terminal, type ‘banner’, hit enter, type some text, hit enter again and voilà! You get a sideways banner of your chosen text fully suitable for printing on your favorite dot matrix printer.

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  1. FCompton Subscriber 10 years ago

    Hah! Just the thing to run to my wide-format roll printer!

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  2. Lee Dronick Subscriber 10 years ago

    PrintShop!

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