Display images and gifs in your terminal emulator.
- Animated GIF support
- Accept media through stdin
- Transparency
brew install danielgatis/imgcat/imgcat
First, install snapcraft.
sudo snap install imgcat
First, install scoop.
scoop bucket add scoop-imgcat https://github.com/danielgatis/scoop-imgcat.git
scoop install scoop-imgcat/imgcat
Alternatively, you can download a pre-built binary here.
First, install Go.
Next, fetch and build the binary.
go install github.com/danielgatis/imgcat@latest
or, if you use pre-1.17 Go version, use the go get
command:
go get -u github.com/danielgatis/imgcat
Display a remote image
curl -s http://input.png | imgcat
Display a local image
imgcat path/to/image.png
Your terminal emulator must be support true color
and use a monospaced font
that includes the lower half block unicode character (▄ U 2584
).
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