nms

nms [-acsv] [-f color]

nms ("No More Secrets") reads text from standard input, displays it as random noise, and then animates a character-by-character decryption to the original content, recreating the famous data-decryption sequence from the 1992 film *Sneakers*.Because it reads stdin, nms composes naturally with pipes, letting you drop the effect on top of the output of any command. A companion program, sneakers, is also shipped by the project and provides the interactive terminal version of the movie scene.

-a

Auto-decrypt: start the reveal immediately without waiting for a keypress.

Mask single blank spaces too (tabs and newlines remain unmasked).

Foreground colour of the revealed text. Accepts `white`, `yellow`, `black`, `magenta`, `blue` (default), `green`, `red`, `cyan`, or an `#RRGGBB` hex value.

Clear the screen before running and restore the terminal state after completion.

Print the version and exit.

Purely a visual effect -- it does not alter the piped data, just the way it is displayed. Requires a terminal that supports ANSI escape sequences and is at least as large as the input text. Very large inputs can take a noticeable amount of time to reveal; use -a to skip the keypress pause.

No More Secrets was created by Brian Barto and first released on GitHub in 2016. It became a popular novelty tool in the Linux community and is packaged by most major distributions.

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