snakes.pl

Snake.pl is a small perl script that emulates the classic "pipes" screensaver in a terminal window.

Usage

Snake.pl ought to run on perl 5.8 and beyond with no prerequisites.

To get help, run snake.pl -h to see the following output:

Usage:
    snake.pl [OPTIONS]

    Options:

        -p, --pipes=N   Number of pipes.                  (Default: 1  )
        -f, --fps=N     Frames per second.                (Default: 75 )
        -a, --ascii     ASCII mode.                       (Default: no )
        -l, --length=N  Minimum length of pipe.           (Default: 2  )
        -r, --prob=N    Probability of chaning direction. (Default: 0.1)
        -h, --help      This help message.

Arguments:
    -p, --pipes=*integer*
        Number of pipes. A large number of pipes will probably slow things
        down a bit. Default 1.

    -f, --fps=*integer*
        Frames per second. This will be kept to as well as possible. Default
        75.

    -a, --ascii
        Use ASCII rather than unicode. This'll probably look pretty bad.

    -l, --length=*integer*
        Minimum length of a pipe, measured in characters.

    -r, --prob=*float*
        Probability of a pipe changing direction per time step.

    -h, --help
        Display this help message.

Bugs

Please report any bugs using the Github issue tracker.