[Mac only] Mac’s Terminal startup message is also called MOTD (Message of The Day). If you have not tweak the startup message, it’s probably blank. To make the Terminal screen a little more interesting whenever you launch the Terminal, here’s how you can put any message, or even ASCII art. Guide after jump.
First of all, you must have root access to the Mac machine you are changing, then follow these following steps:
- Launch Terminal application
- Execute this command: sudo pico /etc/motd, password is required
- Type in your message, save it with Control-X.
To make your message more interesting, try using ASCII art. I recommend this website to generate ASCII art – ascii.mastervb.net
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Posted by hongkiat in Mac Tips , at 06.20.08
Tags: customized, motd, terminal, welcome message |
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Comments
keemanxp June 21st, 2008
Neat!! Thanks for the info, HK!
Replyhongkiat June 21st, 2008
@keemanxp I simply love it. Now whenever I start my Terminal I have a Mona Lisa smile :-)
ReplyJauhari June 23rd, 2008
I used it and just perfect, I think this tutorials also available for others Unix Machine such as FreeBSD, Linux ;)
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