gti

I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti.

It's a program that displays a badly made ASCII-art animation to punish you for your typing error - and after that magically launches the command you meant to launch.

The code is available under an MIT-like license on github - though of course anybody can write his or her own version in a couple of minutes.

This whole thing is heavily inspired by sl, which displays a steam locomotive. However, gti is actually nicer than sl as it at least executes git after the animation. :-)

I think gti is now available in both Gentoo's and FreeBSD's package systems - but I don't use either of them, so I can't really test it.

It's also available in Arch Linux, Source Mage GNU/Linux, the Debian-based Terrible Linux, and on Mac OS via the homebrew package system.

If you're going to include it in $YOUR_DISTRO's package system please consider sending me a short note <richard@r-wos.org>. It's not a requirement, of course - I'm just curious!