A Python script that allows your terminal to snow
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Stacking version: http://asciinema.org/a/6912
https://gist.github.com/sontek/1505483
The python script also supports the snowflakes piling up with the --stack command.
I'm using iTerm2, zsh and python3
E.g., under stock Mavericks bash, the command
echo $BASH_VERSION
returns 3.2.51(1)-release, while current bash is 4.2
I'm looking into homebrew as a means of getting up-to-date CLI tools.
EDIT: Added homebrew using instructions on brew.sh, it managed all dependencies. Ran brew doctor, then brew install bash, edited /etc/shells as suggested, updated Terminal startup preferences (could just as easily have used chsh, 6 of one...), all was well. Quick and easy, painless.