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I built this and it looks proper in the terminal... but when I ssh to localhost its just the ansi characters... its garbled and there is no color. Same in iTerm and Terminal. I can cat the file and its fine. Somehow the ssh login breaks it?

Looks like this (as in, display of ANSI escape-sequences in login banners) was disabled in OpenSSH as of v5.1p1: http://www.mail-archive.com/secureshell@securityfocus.com/ms...

Edit: I should add that it does work fine if you place the generated output into /etc/motd instead. The article argues that might not be the best place for it, I'll leave that for you to decide however.

I'll update the article to use /etc/motd then. Thanks for the input!

If you want the change to be permanent, on Ubuntu its /etc/motd.tail

Thanks for the tip, was wondering :)

libcaca: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

I love ANSI art and I think this is a great way to introduce people to it!

Binary ANSI Art in the Terminal