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This is a brief tutorial for adding ascii art to the terminal where the fortunes would be.This is if you want something a litte more static then a random fortune message. The idea came to me today. while I was in the #pimpmymint IRC channel when a discussion got started up about of all things bacon.

1. Backup the file:

Make sure to create a back up copy of your bash.bashrc by going into your file system and navagating to /etc/ from there make a copy of the "bash.bashrc" file in the same folder just make it "bash.bashrc-backup" so in the event of something going horribly wrong all you have to do is delete the old one and rename the back up.

-Side note: When modifying something you should always make a back up of what ever is you are modding. This allows you to have a clean version of what ever it is in the even of failure or other issues.

2. What we will be putting in:

For the sanity of all I'm going to put the ascii art "BACON!" in the following pastebin for easy reffence:

http://pastebin.com/wjLeNYEH     <--- Open that in a new tab. Just keep that in a tab somewhere for easy reffence.

3. Open the text editor to edit the file:

next open out your terminal and type:  gksu gedit /etc/bash.bashrc  

Side note: This opens up a text editor into your bash config file. (Not my editor of choice usually)

-Warning: the "gksu" command will give you root access to the file so it will save properly. Do not abuse this command or you could be facing some major issues.

Side note: I am presuming you are in mint so at the bottom of the file you will see : /usr/bin/mint-fortune if you are not then disregard number 4 and skip to 5

4. Profroming open file surgery:

Just add a # to the front so it looks like this: #/usr/bin/mint-fortune  <-- Also called commenting out. This action will disable your fortune messages. To get them back just take out the # but make sure you also take out or comment out your net title text.

5. What to add ans where:

At the bottom of the document type this : echo "            " The bacon ASCII will go between the quotation marks.

Side note: The quotation marks keep the echo from thinking its a command it is going to execute, thus reducing the risk of errors when you go to load it. I also add a second echo command at the bottom so it returns a blank line between the title zone and the starting line of your BASH session. The bottom of the file should look like this after you are done but dont mind the rest of the file we are not working with it: http://ompldr.org/vOW80cA

6. Lastly save the file and open a new terminal and see how you did.

Side note: If all went well it should look like this:  http://ompldr.org/vOW80cQ

-options-

Now if you want a custom title instead of BACON!  go to: http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

Keep in mind the site above only makes text so if you want something like a beer mug or some silly thing like that you will need to find that on the net and tinker with it.

Side note: So that is about it just keep it between the quotation marks. you might need to play with the spacing to get it spot on but after that your good to go.

-Thanks for reading! -- Cythes