What's the deal with the banner command?

Question

In some versions of UNIX and Linux there\'s a banner command (usually /usr/bin/banner) that prints great output like this:

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Answer 1

The banner command from bsdmainutils package version 8.0.13 is now called printerbanner and is located here /usr/bin/printerbanner.