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1. Mac Terminal Commands To Look Like A Hacker
2. Mac Terminal Commands That Look Like Hacking

In one of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movies (I think the Swedish one) during a 'hacker scene' Lisbeth had a terminal open on her Mac and it looked like it was just the output of ls -R on a Linux system (maybe they used ssh to make it go slower) (and yes, I mean Linux, because I don't think Mac OS X has aspell libraries). Have a hacker-like computer style. Find a picture of skull and crossbones. Use paint or a program like that to put writing under the skull saying something like this: XXXYOURNAMEHEREXXX. Where it says YOURNAMEHERE, just put your name in all caps.

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In Hollywood movies, hacking always seems interesting, especially because the whole action is spiced up with fancy desktop environments/backgrounds, rapidly uncontrolled typing (with loud typing noise/keystrokes) and rapid scrolling of command output on colorful terminals.

Read Also: 20 Useful Terminal Emulators for Linux

To make it all seem real, the hackers normally keep on explaining real-world hacking concepts (and mentioning used tools/commands) while breaking into computer systems or networks and the action gets done in a matter of seconds or minutes, which is far different from the practical real-world scenario.

However, if you want to get a feel of hacking in the movies, easily on your Linux console, then you need to install the Hollywood terminal emulator: developed by Canonical’s Dustin Kirkland.

Watch how Hollywood Terminal works:

This terminal emulator produces Hollywood melodrama technobabble in your byobu console. In this article, we will show you how to setup the byubo console and Hollywood movies hackers’ terminal emulator in Ubuntu and it’s derivatives such as Linux Mint, Kubuntu etc.

First, add the appropriate repository to your system software sources, then update the packages’ sources list and finally install the packages as follows:

To launch Hollywood terminal type:

To stop it, simply press [Ctrl+C] to kill the hollywood script itself, then type exit to quit the byobu console.

Mac Terminal Commands That Look Like Hacking

To set the number of splits to divide your screen, use the -s flag.

You can turn off the theme song, using -q flag like this.

You might also like to read these following related articles on Linux Terminal.

That’s all. Hope you find this interesting but remember real life hacking is complicated, you need to take time to learn, understand and penetrate operating systems or applications and beyond.

If you know of any similar fancy command line utilities out there, do share with us including any other thoughts about this article, via the feedback form below.