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Draw ASCII art boxes around your input text

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Text Processing linuxmacos C GPL-2.0

Description

Boxes is a command-line filter program that draws ASCII art boxes around your input text. It comes with a large collection of box designs and can be used to create decorative text borders for comments, documentation, and terminal output.

AI Summary

CLI filter that draws ASCII art boxes and borders around text

Capabilities

  • + Draw ASCII art boxes around text
  • + Multiple box design styles
  • + Custom box design support
  • + Pipe-friendly filter operation

Use When

  • → You want to add decorative borders to text
  • → You need ASCII art comment blocks in source code

Avoid When

  • x You need rich text formatting
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