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Matrix Effect in you terminal
echo -e "\e[1;40m" ; clear ; while :; do echo $LINES $COLUMNS $(( $RANDOM % $COLUMNS)) $(( $RANDOM % 72 )) ;sleep 0.05; done|awk '{ letters="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789@#$%^&*()"; c=$4; letter=substr(letters,c,1);a[$3]=0;for (x in a) {o=a[x];a[x]=a[x]+1; printf "\033[%s;%sH\033[2;32m%s",o,x,letter; printf "\033[%s;%sH\033[1;37m%s\033[0;0H",a[x],x,letter;if (a[x] >= $1) { a[x]=0; } }}'
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Here's a cross platform powershell script that runs in iTerm / WindowsTerminal or a basic ASCII terminal as well! (Progressive in unix mode, and basic in windows mode)

https://github.com/avdaredevil/matrix/?tab=readme-ov-file#demo

Hope it brings a smile to y'all's faces :)

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