Question

I am writing a script on Red Hat Linux (I forget the version) that needs a header, but the banner command is not there for me to use and I won’t be able to get it installed. I read via Google that it may well have been deprecated.

So is there a new version of the command that produces similar results, or a way I can replicate the command, or even just temporarily change the script output so that characters are a different size?

I’ve tried looking at stty but we don’t access via xterm, we log in directly via putty.

Answer 1

In its simplest form, ‘banner’ is less than a few pages of code (e.g. this one). Perhaps you could just compile and run it from your home directory?