lolcat:tldr:e7926
lolcat: Print the result of a text-producing command in rainbow colors.
$ ${fortune} | lolcat
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This command is a mix of two separate commands in a Unix-like operating system environment.
The first command is ${fortune}. In Unix systems, fortune is a program that generates random quotes or fortune cookie-like messages. By using ${fortune}, you are executing this command to generate a random quote or message.
The second command is lolcat. It is a program that takes text as input and applies colorful rainbow text formatting to it. It gives an animated and vibrant appearance to the text.
By using the pipe symbol |, the output of ${fortune} is taken as input for the lolcat command. This means that the random quote or message generated by ${fortune} will be modified by lolcat to display the text in colorful rainbow format.
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.