How can I print existing ASCII art from a Bash script?

I've just seen the following ASCII art.

 0000_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+ 00000000_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+ 000____000_______000____000_____000_______0000__00______0+ 000______000_____000______000_____________0000___00______0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000___________0000_____0_____0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000__________0000___________0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000_________000___0000000000+ 0000______0000___0000______0000________0000+ 000______000_____000______000________0000+ 000____000_______000____000_______00000+ 00000000_________00000000_______0000000+ 0000_____________0000________000000007

I have a bash script that I would like to print this from. How can I do that?

This is something I might want to redistribute so to keep things simple, I'd prefer if answers didn't require additional things to be installed.

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This is the shortest form I was able to produce, that prints exactly that 007 string:

base64 -d <<<"H4sIAJM2MVYAA1NQgAEDIIhHBsgCBmgAU8TAQJsL2SgU41AFiDALYRhUF8I0NAEUCbBZUB7MBGRrUXX
g8DC6CagORwkYtDCDcw3IMwDdOBL1IyRRwpBI7cihTlSYkRRNUHcRnUZgXIQGIlOoOQC/4ufk0gIAAA==" | gunzip

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What about just echo?:

echo -e " 0000_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+\n 00000000_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+\n 000____000_______000____000_____000_______0000__00______0+\n 000______000_____000______000_____________0000___00______0+\n 0000______0000___0000______0000___________0000_____0_____0+\n 0000______0000___0000______0000__________0000___________0+\n 0000______0000___0000______0000_________000___0000000000+\n 0000______0000___0000______0000________0000+\n 000______000_____000______000________0000+\n 000____000_______000____000_______00000+\n 00000000_________00000000_______0000000+\n 0000_____________0000________000000007;"

^{Every newline has been replaced with \n to shove it all into one line}

It won't resize to the terminal though etc (unless you check the terminal width and echo one that is the right size), and it isn't that short either (is there a way to repeat characters better?) but it should work. If you want the colours as well you can use escape codes:

echo -e "\033[31m 0000\033[0m_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+\n\033[31m 00000000\033[0m_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+\n\033[31m 000\033[0m____000_______000____000_____000_______0000__00______0+\n\033[31m 000\033[0m______000_____000______000_____________0000___00______0+\n\033[31m 0000\033[0m______0000___0000______0000___________0000_____0_____0+\n\033[31m 0000\033[0m______0000___0000______0000__________0000___________0+\n\033[31m 0000\033[0m______0000___0000______0000_________000___0000000000+\n\033[31m 0000\033[0m______0000___0000______0000________0000+\n\033[31m 000\033[0m______000_____000______000________0000+\n\033[31m 000\033[0m____000_______000____000_______00000+\n\033[31m 00000000\033[0m_________00000000_______0000000+\n\033[31m 0000\033[0m_____________0000________000000007;"

By the way you may want to consider copyright and boring stuff depending onhow you are using it - e.g. this version which is similar seems to still be in copyright.

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Put the characters in a file and cat it.

cat 007.txt

Use a "here document"

cat <<EOF 0000_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+ 00000000_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+ . . .
EOF

echo a string with embedded newlines

echo ' 0000_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+ 00000000_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+ . . .'

The advantage of these approaches is that the art is still readable.

Shamefully borrowing ( aka stealing ) B.Roland's answer , I suggest a package with a colorfull name . . . toilet ! Which you can get with sudo apt-get install toilet and it works roughly like this:

xieerqi:$ toilet 007 mmmm mmmm mmmmmm m" "m m" "m #" # m # # m # m" # # # # m" #mm# #mm# m" 

It also supports changing fonts ( located in /usr/share/figlet )

 toilet -f bigascii12 LINUX ## ###### ### ## ## ## ## ## ## ###### ### ## ## ## :## ##: ## ## ###: ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ## :####: ## ## ##:#: ## ## ## #### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## :##: ## ## ## ## ## ## ## :##: ## ## ## :#:## ## ## #### ## ## ## #### ## ## :####: ## ## ## :### ## ## ##::## ######## ###### ## ### :######: :## ##: ######## ###### ## ### :####: ## ## 

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Install banner package and create a bash script

sudo apt-get install sysvbanner

check below example of command

banner 007

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Usage

cat << "EOF"
your_ascii_art
EOF

See the below example

 cat << "EOF" 0000_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+ 00000000_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+ 000____000_______000____000_____000_______0000__00______0+ 000______000_____000______000_____________0000___00______0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000___________0000_____0_____0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000__________0000___________0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000_________000___0000000000+ 0000______0000___0000______0000________0000+ 000______000_____000______000________0000+ 000____000_______000____000_______00000+ 00000000_________00000000_______0000000+ 0000_____________0000________000000007
EOF

Given below some ascii art generator sites.

The simplest way of doing this would be to just put the art into a file and then echo it. That way it preserves the original representation in the file, so you can identify it easily!

echo ' 0000_____________0000________0000000000000000__000000000000000000+ 00000000_________00000000______000000000000000__0000000000000000000+ 000____000_______000____000_____000_______0000__00______0+ 000______000_____000______000_____________0000___00______0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000___________0000_____0_____0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000__________0000___________0+ 0000______0000___0000______0000_________000___0000000000+ 0000______0000___0000______0000________0000+ 000______000_____000______000________0000+ 000____000_______000____000_______00000+ 00000000_________00000000_______0000000+ 0000_____________0000________000000007'

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