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From: Tony Nugent <T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au>
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Subject: Info: Script to show all Figlet fonts
Date: 22 Oct 1994 01:22:48 -0500
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mpuj0@central.sussex.ac.uk (Chris) writes:


>Bob Allison (boba@wwa.com) wrote:


>:    Interesting, I'll have to put that in the longer FAQs.

>Another idea, also related to another article

>On unix a useful ksh script produces an example file for all fonts in
>the current directory

>-----cut here-----
>#! /bin/ksh

>for FILE in `ls *.flf`
>do
>echo $FILE >> example.file
            ^^
            This might need to be  >>! if "noclobber" is set.

>echo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> example.file
>echo $FILE | figlet -f $FILE >> example.file
>echo ~~~   ~~~   ~~~ >> example.file
>done
>-----cut here-----

For what it's worth, here's another that will do the same thing:

===8<---crash-and-burn-all-above------------
foreach flf ( *.flf)
echo $flf | figlet -f $flf >>! example.file
end
===8<---crash-and-burn-all-above------------

with other embellishments as you wish.  I use this at the
command-line quite often when I want to quickly look at some
fonts to choose one, although in this case I pipe the total
result to less (or more).

Cheers
Tony
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