README.md

Power ASCII

This script will print out a random Ascii Art to your terminal screen whenever you launch the terminal.

Note: This script only works on PowerShell v5.0 or higher

Run through the following steps to use this script.

Get your PowerShell profile

# The following command will open your profile if it exists
# $PROFILE is a variable that contains a path where is your profile file should be
> notepad $PROFILE

If you do not currently have a profile

# The following command will output a directory where is your profile file should be
> echo $PROFILE

# With the following to create your profile file with no content
> New-Item -ItemType File -Force -Path DIRECTORY_FROM_PREVIOUS_COMMAND

Setup PowerShell Profile

Put the following code somewhere to your profile

$code = 
@"
Print-Random-Art -colorized 1
"@
$Script = Invoke-WebRequest 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zozobalogh0817/Power-Ascii/master/power_ascii.ps1'
$ScriptBlock = [Scriptblock]::Create($Script.Content + $code)
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock $ScriptBlock

Save your profile, restart your PowerShell, or type the following

# This command will reload your profile
. $PROFILE

You ready to rock.

Methods

Get-Random-Art - This method will return a Random Ascii Art from sixty variety

Arguments: This method does not take any arguments

Print-Random-Art - This method will Print a Random Ascii Art from sixty variety

Arguments: [boolean] colorized

How to use custom methods

Put your custom code inside the code variable Like the following

$code = 
@"
# Uncolorized Art
Print-Random-Art -colorized 0
# Colorized Art
Print-Random-Art -colorized 1
# Get Random Art then write with Write-Host
Write-Host (Get-Random-Art)
"@

The above code will write several Ascii Art to the console.

Thanks to DanCRichards

Based on DanCRichards/ASCII-Art-Splash-Screen

Do not use this script for too serious things