Do you want to make your bash terminal snow? Here is a fun little way to do that using awk, I can’t take any credit for this one, a friend of mine got it from a friend, and so on, so give it a try!

This should be safe to copy and paste right into your bash cli and hit enter (takes a few seconds for it to start snowing)

clear; \
while :; \
do \
echo $LINES $COLUMNS $(($RANDOM%$COLUMNS)); \
sleep 0.03; \
done | \
awk '{ \
         a[$3]=0; \
         for(x in a) {o=a[x]; \
                      a[x]=a[x]+1; \
                      printf "\033[%s;%sH ",o,x; \
                      printf "\033[%s;%sH*\033[0;0H",a[x],x; \
                     } \
     }' 

Which should give you something like this, but animated!

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Merry Xmas!