README.md
Pretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work! Impress people with your insane multitasking skills. Just open a few instances of genact and watch the show. genact has multiple scenes that pretend to be doing something exciting or useful when in reality nothing is happening at all.
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You don't have to install anything! For your convenience, prebuilt binaries for Linux, OSX and Windows are provided here that should run without any dependencies. Additionally, there is a web version at https://svenstaro.github.io/genact/
It's compatible with FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows, and most modern web browsers that support WebAssembly.
On FreeBSD: You don't have to do anything special here. Just run
pkg install genact
genact
On Linux: Download genact-linux from the releases page and run
chmod +x genact-linux
./genact-linux
On macOS: Download genact-osx from the releases page and run
chmod +x genact-osx
./genact-osx
A homebrew package is also available. To install it this way, run
brew install genact
On macOS, you can also install via MacPorts:
sudo port install genact
On Windows: Download genact-win.exe from the releases page and double click it.
It is also available on Scoop:
scoop install genact
With Cargo: If you have a somewhat recent version of Rust and Cargo installed, you can run
cargo install genact
genact
With gah: If you are using gah, you can run
gah install genact
To see a list of all available options, you can run
./genact -h
or
cargo run -- -h
or (on Docker)
docker run -it --rm svenstaro/genact -h
A nonsense activity generator
Usage: genact [OPTIONS]
Options:
-l, --list-modules List available modules
-m, --modules <MODULES> Run only these modules [possible values: ansible, bootlog, botnet, bruteforce, cargo, cc,
composer, cryptomining, docker_build, docker_image_rm, download, julia, kernel_compile, memdump,
mkinitcpio, rkhunter, simcity, terraform, weblog]
-s, --speed-factor <SPEED_FACTOR> Global speed factor [default: 1]
-i, --instant-print-lines <INSTANT_PRINT_LINES> Instantly print this many lines [default: 0]
--exit-after-time <EXIT_AFTER_TIME> Exit after running for this long (format example: 2h10min)
--exit-after-modules <EXIT_AFTER_MODULES> Exit after running this many modules
--print-completions <shell> Generate completion file for a shell [possible values: bash, elvish, fish, powershell, zsh]
--print-manpage Generate man page
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
In the web version, you can run specific modules by providing them as ?module
parameters like this: https://svenstaro.github.io/genact?module=cc&module=memdump
You can also provide a ?speed-factor like this:
https://svenstaro.github.io/genact?speed-factor=5
You should have a recent version of rust and cargo installed.
Then, just clone it like usual and cargo run to get output:
git clone https://github.com/svenstaro/genact.git
cd genact
cargo run --release
This is mostly a note for me on how to release this thing:
CHANGELOG.md is up to date.cargo release <version>cargo release --execute <version>