hollywood

Fill the console with Hollywood technobabble

$ hollywood

$ Ctrl+C Ctrl+C

$ hollywood -h

hollywood [options]

hollywood fills your terminal with the kind of fake "hacking" screens seen in movies. It creates multiple tmux panes displaying various busy-looking activities like hexdumps, network traffic, system logs, and code scrolling.
The display is purely cosmetic - it doesn't actually perform any real hacking or system modifications. It's designed for entertainment, movie props, or impressing people who don't know better.
Activities displayed include:
- Scrolling hexadecimal data
- Fake system logs
- Network monitoring displays
- Code compilation output
- Directory listings
- Various system utilities

Requires tmux and various other tools to be installed. High CPU usage due to running many processes simultaneously. Press Ctrl+C twice to exit (once may only close one pane).

hollywood was created by Dustin Kirkland at Canonical as a fun side project. It became popular as a way to recreate the unrealistic "hacking" scenes from Hollywood movies, where computers display endless streams of incomprehensible data.

tmux(1), cmatrix(1), no-more-secrets(1)