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🌀 A nonsense activity generator
https://github.com/svenstaro/genact

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# genact - a nonsense activity generator

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**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.

![](gifs/cc.gif)
![](gifs/memdump.gif)
![](gifs/cargo.gif)

## Installation

Packaging status

You don't have to install anything! For your convenience, prebuilt binaries for Linux, OSX and Windows are provided [here](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) 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](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) and run

chmod +x genact-linux
./genact-linux

**On macOS**: Download `genact-osx` from [the releases page](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) 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](https://github.com/svenstaro/genact/releases) 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

## Running

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

### Usage

A nonsense activity generator

Usage: genact [OPTIONS]

Options:
-l, --list-modules List available modules
-m, --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 Global speed factor [default: 1]
-i, --instant-print-lines Instantly print this many lines [default: 0]
--exit-after-time Exit after running for this long (format example: 2h10min)
--exit-after-modules Exit after running this many modules
--print-completions 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

### Web usage

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

## Building

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

## Releasing

This is mostly a note for me on how to release this thing:

- Make sure `CHANGELOG.md` is up to date.
- `cargo release `
- `cargo release --execute `
- Releases will automatically be deployed by GitHub Actions.
- Update Arch package.