How To Add FIGLet Banner To Terminal In Kali Linux.

In this post we will learn to add a custom banner or header in our Terminal by using a free program called FIGLet. This banner will appear on the terminal whenever we open our terminal (as root).

Okay, what is FIGLet? The name derives from letters of Frank, Ian and Glenn. Its a free program written in C language and it commonly comes included in Unix-like Operating Systems. It generates text banners like composed of smaller ASCII charachters. And yes we can use these banners in our terminal also.

Lets do it.

• Type “apt-get install figlet” in terminal and press enter to install FIGLet.

• Now we type “figlet test banner” and press enter.

We can also use some options with figlet to customize our output banner. Few options which could be useful in making banner are like

• -c
  It centers the output.
  
  
• -l
  It can be used for left-side alignment of banner
  
  
• -r
  It can be used for right-side alignment
  
  
• -t
  It sets the output width to the terminal width

• -w
  It can be used to specify custom output width.

• -f
  It can be used to select a font file

• -d
  For changing the directory of fonts.

For example we type “figlet -ct test banner” and press enter.

Now we have to add this banner to our terminal so that when we open it will be shown on the top. To do so we just have to append the command (like figlet -ct test banner) in bashrc file.

It is a hidden file present in our home directory. To find it type “ls -a” and press enter in home directory.

We can open the bashrc file in any text editor like vim or leafpad and add those command in the last line of the file and save it. I am using leafpad for this time. So i type leafpad '/root/.bashrc' and press enter.

After adding command save and close it. Now if we open our terminal, we can see our custom banner on the top.

Any code written in bashrc file will execute automatically. Try it yourself and thanks for reading.

Alok kumar