bsdgames

There is great beauty here. Great beauty. It's pure terminal poetry.

The most canonical source code Ciro Santilli can find right now is: sources.debian.org/src/bsdgames/

Table of contents
- Build bsdgames from source bsdgames
- bsdgames game bsdgames
  - number (bsdgames) bsdgames game
  - primes (bsdgames) bsdgames game

Build bsdgames from source

Many of the games are disabled by default on Ubuntu. But we can enable some games and build from source with:

apt-get source bsdgames
cd bsdgames-*
sed -ri '/^bsd_games_cfg_no_build_dirs=/s/ number / /' config.params
./configure
make -j

Here we enabled the game number, so now we can:

number/number 123

which gives:

one hundred twenty-three.

We can also "install" it locally with:

make install

which puts the games locally under:

debian/bsdgames/usr/games/number

which you can add to your PATH environment variable.

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04, bsdgames 2.17.

bsdgames game

 0  0 

number (bsdgames)

 0  0 

Converts numberical numbers to their full English form: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/413441/converting-numbers-into-full-written-words

For example:

number 123456789123456789123456879123456789123456789123456879

gives:

one hundred twenty-three sexdecillion.
four hundred fifty-six quindecillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine quattuordecillion.
one hundred twenty-three tredecillion.
four hundred fifty-six duodecillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine undecillion.
one hundred twenty-three decillion.
four hundred fifty-six nonillion.
eight hundred seventy-nine octillion.
one hundred twenty-three septillion.
four hundred fifty-six sextillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine quintillion.
one hundred twenty-three quadrillion.
four hundred fifty-six trillion.
seven hundred eighty-nine billion.
one hundred twenty-three million.
four hundred fifty-six thousand.
eight hundred seventy-nine.

It also takes input from stdin, e.g.: