Create Personalized Terminal Greeting

Introduction

In this challenge, you will transform your terminal startup experience by creating a unique, personalized welcome message using the figlet command. The goal is to display your name or a favorite greeting in large ASCII characters, saving the result in a file called welcome.txt. This customization will provide a personalized and visually appealing greeting when you open your terminal.

Skills Graph

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Create Personalized Terminal Greeting

Welcome to your Linux terminal customization challenge! Transform your terminal startup experience by creating a unique, personalized welcome message.

Tasks

Use the figlet command to create an ASCII art welcome message
Display your name or a favorite greeting in large ASCII characters
Save your welcome message creation in a file called welcome.txt

Requirements

Use the figlet command to generate the ASCII art
Create the file ~/project/welcome.txt, Your ASCII art should be saved in this file

Examples

Example output might look like:

 _   _      _ _
| | | | ___| | | ___
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \
|  _  |  __/ | | (_) |
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___/

Hints

Open "Home" on the Desktop, navigate to the project directory, and create the welcome.txt file by right-clicking.
Select the ASCII art text and use right-click to copy and paste it into the welcome.txt file.

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Summary

In summary, this challenge requires you to create a personalized terminal greeting by using the figlet command to generate an ASCII art welcome message. You will need to display your name or a favorite greeting in large ASCII characters and save the result in a file called welcome.txt. The goal is to customize your terminal startup experience with a unique and visually appealing welcome message.