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ansiweather:tldr:e905b

ansiweather: Display a forecast showing symbols and daylight data for your current location.
$ ansiweather -s ${true} -d ${true}
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The given command is a UNIX/Linux command-line instruction to run the program ansiweather with certain options.

  • ansiweather is a tool that displays weather information in the terminal using ANSI escape codes to format the output in color.
  • -s ${true} is an option flag that specifies to display the weather conditions in short text format (e.g., "Sunny", "Cloudy", "Rainy"). ${true} is a command substitution that is replaced with the value true, which is typically used in shell scripting to represent the boolean value of "true".
  • -d ${true} is another option flag that instructs ansiweather to display the date and time information. Similarly, ${true} is substituted with true to represent boolean "true".

Therefore, executing the given command will run the ansiweather program, showing the weather conditions in short text format along with the date and time information.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.
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