pokecli

🖼️ Show a random Pokémon ASCII art in your terminal, blazingly fast.

Pokecli is a tiny C program that prints a random Pokémon sprite every time you run it. Perfect for ricing, dotfiles, or just adding a bit of fun to your shell. No dependencies, just pure speed.

• 🟢 Random Pokémon ASCII art on every run
• ⚡️ Super fast, written in C
• 🎨 Great for screenshots and showing off your setup
• 🐧 Made for Linux (Debian), but easy to adapt

Installation

Clone, build, and run:

git clone https://github.com/MingFei2001/pokecli.git --depth=1
cd pokecli
make
./pokecli

Usage

• Run ./pokecli for a random Pokémon.
• Run ./pokecli pikachu to summon a specific one (currently only the first 151 is available 😓)
• Drop it in your .bashrc, .zshrc, or your favorite rice script for instant joy.

TODO

• Random Pokémon by default
• Add a manpage
• Package for easy install
• Make a .deb package
• Polish this README

Contributing

I love ricing and I'm still learning C, so contributions, suggestions, and issues are super welcome! If you want to see pokecli on your distro or have ideas for new features, open an issue or PR.

Credits

• acxz/pokescript
• phoneybadger/pokemon-colorscripts
• dwt1/shell-color-scripts

License

MIT – see LICENSE for details.