Watch Star Wars From Linux Mint / Ubuntu Terminal
Here is how to watch the ASCII version of Star Wars right from the Linux Mint / Ubuntu Terminal :
Open Terminal and type :
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Sit back, relax and watch the entire Star Wars story in ASCII. 🙂
The awesome site that made this possible is here. Kudos to them!
Enjoy. 🙂
How To Save Web Pages As Text Files Through Linux Mint / Ubuntu Terminal
An earlier post referred to using Lynx as a text browser to surf the internet.
Here is one another reason due to which Lynx is awesome, it can directly browse a specified website address and download the entire page as a text file. It is very simple to use Lynx to download a web page as text and list all the web links present on the page.
To do this :
1. Open Terminal and type lynx -dump [web address]...