🕯️ Candle

This is a joke command that displays a candle-like fire effect in your terminal.
It renders a retro-style flame animation that serves absolutely no purpose—other than looking cool.
Requires a terminal with 256-color support.

⚙️ Features

• 🔥 Retro-style flame rendering.
• ⏳ Configurable display duration.
• 🎨 256-color terminal required.
• 🖥️ Cross-platform binaries (Windows, macOS, Linux)

💾 Download

👉 Get the latest release here: https://github.com/y-hatano-github/candle/releases/latest

Quick start

🐧 Linux

wget https://github.com/y-hatano-github/candle/releases/latest/download/candle_linux_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzvf candle_linux_amd64.tar.gz
mv candle /usr/local/bin/
candle

🍎 macOS

curl -LO https://github.com/y-hatano-github/candle/releases/latest/download/candle_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzvf candle_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv candle /usr/local/bin/
candle

🪟 Windows

Invoke-WebRequest -OutFile candle_windows_amd64.tar.gz https://github.com/y-hatano-github/candle/releases/latest/download/candle_windows_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzvf  candle_windows_amd64.tar.gz
.\candle.exe

📘 Usage

Usage: candle [DURATIONTIME]

Positional arguments:
  DURATIONTIME           [Optional]duration time

Options:
  --help, -h             display this help and exit

Example: display the candle flame for three seconds

candle 3

⌨️ Key bindings

[esc / CTRL+C] - exit