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Merry Christmas everyone!
If you’re celebrating Christmas at your Unix console, wouldn’t it be fun to have a Christmas tree in your shell? It sure would! Follow these steps to have your own Christmas tree in the shell.
Step 1: Install Acme::POE::Tree Perl Module.
Type the following at your shell, it will install Acme::POE::Tree Perl module:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Acme::POE::Tree'
If you get notified that you are missing dependencies, answer ‘yes’ to have them installed.
Step 2: Celebrate Christmas at Console.
Type this to have your Christmas tree up and running:
perl -MAcme::POE::Tree -e 'Acme::POE::Tree->new()->run()'
The result:
Merry Christmas!
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December 26th, 2008 at 2:28 am
This has to be the greatest(read geekiest) christmas tree ever.
December 26th, 2008 at 2:54 am
Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the great blog articles :)
December 26th, 2008 at 3:40 am
ho! ho! ho! ho! great tip Peteris :-D
December 26th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Merry Christmas!!
Ah! That seems like so much fun. I can do that, too ^^*~
December 26th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Peter, Merry Christmas. Thanks for such an wonderful Christmas tree. You rock :-)
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December 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
It installed for ages but then worked nicely. Thanks :)
And your screenshot is animated too, nice attention to detail. Did you do that by hand?
December 29th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hi Rob,
Yes, I did it by hand. I took several screenshots, loaded them in Photoshop and then saved as an animated gif.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I can’t believe you have Windows on your desktop :-)
Thanks for the great blog.