a small telnet gif server using gif-for-cli and netcat

gifserver

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
    then
        echo "%usage: $0 <id> [options]"
        exit
fi

echo "[$0] 🌶   Now servin' up hot GIFs!"

trap ctrl_c INT

function ctrl_c() {
        echo "[$0] ** Terminating **"
        exit
}

while true; do
        gif-for-cli $2 --rows 20 --cols 80 $1 -l 4 2> /dev/null | sudo nc -l -p 23 -q 1 -v
        MYCOUNT=$(expr $MYCOUNT + 1)
        echo "[$0]  🌄  served $MYCOUNT gif(s)"
done

I hope it's obvious to people that sudo nc -l -p 23 -q 1 -v is only a sudo command because of the default telnet port usage;
you can run this without root privs (and probably should anyway if you don't know what it's doing) by changing that line to

gif-for-cli $2 --rows 20 --cols 80 $1 -l 4 2> /dev/null | nc -l -p 1337 -q 1 -v

...or something.