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cmatrix: One of the command to have fun in a Linux terminal. It will turn your terminal into the Hollywood movie “MATRIX” like a cool desktop.
About cmatrix program:
It’s written by Chris Allegretta. The Cmatrix page can be found here. This program is distributed via the GNU GPL and its Sourceforge page is here. To download the latest release visit Sourceforge page.
Have you seen the Hollywood movie “Matrix”? You must have liked those monitors with falling green code. It looks like a cool hacker/coder desktop! After the movie went to the box office, many matrix screensavers were out for windows. Do you want one for Linux? Like the one below?
Yes, that’s possible. You can have such a matrix-like desktop in Linux terminal too. In very simple two steps.
Step 1
Install cmatrix package using YUM or APT depending on your Linux distro.
Cmatrix Linux
If you don’t have a YUM repository configured then you can download a standalone file (check Sourceforge page if this link is broken). Then follow below commands to set it up from source code.
- Install packages:
gcc,make,autoconf,automakencurses-devel - Download above mentioned file, un-zip, un-tar it and goto unpacked directory cmatrix-1.2a
- Within
cmatrixdirectory execute below commands.
Cmatrix Font
Then configure and make ready to install.
Finally install it. and thats it.
Cmatrix Japanese Font
Step 2
Type cmatrixcommand and experience matrix! You can exit out the matrix screen anytime by hitting ctlr+c on the terminal. Check cmatrix command in action in the GIF above!
Cmatrix Mac
Reader’s tip :
One of our readers, @Pranit Raje sent us this one-liner which did the trick. Its not as exact matrix code as we saw above but yeah it’s promising. Try and have fun in the terminal.