This little trick was found on Twitter from though it looks like this is the original Github source, and apparently there’s an entire “” for anyone interested in taking this to some other level. Is this useful? Is this the most important thing you will see this day, year, decade? Is this the secret of the universe? Is a party parrot dancing in ASCII art at your Terminal the purpose of it all? Who knows? But it’s goofy, and sometimes goofy is just plain fun. Here’s what this little gem looks like in animated GIF format: If you’re wondering how this works, it uses the curl command to stream the ASCII from the server ‘parrot.live’ (who runs parrot.live is anyones guess, but presumably they are an ASCII parrot enthusiast), you can break the magic by scrolling up the Terminal window and you’ll see its just a ton of text that is scrolling down the window, thereby giving the illusion it’s a dancing bobbing parrot head.

When you have finished enjoying your ASCII head bobbing parrot, hit Control+C to stop the dance. Hit the Return key and in just a moment you will be enjoying an endlessly dancing party parrot. To see the goofy command line parrot, all you need to do is launch the Terminal application (found within your /Applications/Utilities/ directory), then type the following command string: There isn’t much rocket science or complexity to this one, so you can put down your extra cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and enjoy the magic.

Oh yes, with a simple command string you will have an ASCII art party parrot bobbing its head in your Terminal window.

Dancing line for mac