Matrix Effect in you terminal

gistfile1.sh

echo -e "\e[1;40m" ; clear ; while :; do echo $LINES $COLUMNS $(( $RANDOM % $COLUMNS)) $(( $RANDOM % 72 )) ;sleep 0.05; done|awk '{ letters="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789@#$%^&*()"; c=$4; letter=substr(letters,c,1);a[$3]=0;for (x in a) {o=a[x];a[x]=a[x]+1; printf "\033[%s;%sH\033[2;32m%s",o,x,letter; printf "\033[%s;%sH\033[1;37m%s\033[0;0H",a[x],x,letter;if (a[x] >= $1) { a[x]=0; } }}'

Nifty 👍

I love this

Cool command! I'd like to change the characters printed to terminal, but any change I make to the string in 'letters' returns the error "awk: illegal statement at source line 1 - 5 missing ]'s". Anyone know what all I need to change for that?

This is sweet. Thanks! I've created an updated version that clears columns from above and exits and clears the screen upon a key press: https://gist.github.com/dhaiducek/174cdb04a5a51f016c6ca69ece721b17
(I changed it to show only zeros and ones since I couldn't get it to change to a foreign alphabet without changing my system settings.)

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Your in the Matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6p5q4f-sqI

How to put custom text in this?

Nice! Thank you.

Really cool! Love it

real good computer heater

+1

That's crazy man!

Love it its awesome

Thanks, @khakimov. Just in time for #TheMatrix4 #TheMatrixResurrections .
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTCXoCbJvJ4/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

memory killer...

better use this https://sharadchhetri.com/ubuntu-linux-get-matrix-effect-terminal/

or on macOS -> brew install cmatrix

Made fork which erases the columns when its full.
https://github.com/jaagut123/bash_matrix

#!/bin/env sh

lines=$(tput lines)
cols=$(tput cols)

awkscript='
  {
    letters="ァアィイゥウェエォオカガキギクグケゲコゴサコゴサザシジスズセゼソゾタダチヂッツヅテデトドナニヌネノハバパヒビピフブプヘベペホボポマミムメモャヤュユョヨラリルレロヮワヰヱヲンヴヵヶヷヸヹヺ・ーヽヾabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789@#$%^&*()"

    lines=$1
    random_col=$3

    c=$4
    letter=substr(letters,c,1)

    cols[random_col]=0;

    for (col in cols) {
      line=cols[col];
      cols[col]=cols[col]+1;

      printf "\033[%s;%sH\033[2;32m%s", line, col, letter;
      printf "\033[%s;%sH\033[1;37m%s\033[0;0H", cols[col], col, letter;

      if (cols[col] >= lines) {
        cols[col]=0;
      }
    }
  }
'

echo -e "\e[1;40m"
clear

while :; do
  echo $lines $cols $(( $RANDOM % $cols)) $(( $RANDOM % 72 ))
  sleep 0.05
done | awk "$awkscript"

Here's a cross platform powershell script that runs in iTerm / WindowsTerminal or a basic ASCII terminal as well! (Progressive in unix mode, and basic in windows mode)

https://github.com/avdaredevil/matrix/?tab=readme-ov-file#demo

Hope it brings a smile to y'all's faces :)