How do I display images in the terminal? I am on Mac OSX mountain lion (10.8.5), and the answers in this question don't work on OSX. Is it possible at all?
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12233105/how-can-i-display-an-image-in-the-terminal – Jesse K Apr 01 '16 at 20:33
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pxl is the best tool I have found for xterm-256color terminals.
iTerm has specific tools to inline images (search iTerm imgcat and imgls) but those are kind of cheats (that work great :D).
gif-cli works for GIFs, but ... not well at all. Its author has tools for videos and images, too.
pxl:
imgcat: Just shows the image, with no scaling or anything. The screenshot was bigger than SO's limit, unfortunately. (SO should include a compression mechanism. ) Supports a variety of formats, including animated GIFs.
Update: Kitty is a cross-platform terminal emulator that supports custom protocols that allow it to render bitmaps. It's very feature-rich, I suggest you try it.
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pxl is my new favorite, really nice `go get` away install too. Thanks – james-see Oct 17 '18 at 02:44
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xdg-opento open a viewer from terminal- convert to ascii art
asciiview - use
vlcto output video as ascii art
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1Have you installed them. I know 100% that you can get `vlc` for mac. – ctrl-alt-delor Apr 01 '16 at 21:14
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1@John, if you want to just use existing Mac tools without installing anything, why not just use the terminal command `open` on the image files to open them in Preview? – Wildcard Apr 01 '16 at 21:42
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1I use `apt-get` and these URLs: `http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/`. If you are using Mac, or Microsoft, then you have to do it the hard way (does mac have a package manager?) – ctrl-alt-delor Apr 01 '16 at 22:11