Is it possible to view images in a terminal?

Question

I have ssh access to my web server. I have some image files there and I would like to see a preview of. Is there a tool that will help me? Is there a curses-based viewer that will approximate the picture?

RedGrittyBrick · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-02T20:50:38.187

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Oh yes

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If you prefer colour there's libcaca

edited Aug 02 '14 at 20:50

answered Jan 15 '12 at 23:43

RedGrittyBrick

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score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '12 at 16:36

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The libcaca library comes with img2txt and cacaview tools for this. In color.

One can watch movies through it as well:

mplayer -really-quiet -vo caca ~/Movies/*

answered Jan 17 '12 at 16:36

grawity

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 17 '12 at 16:19

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there's also fbi if you have frame buffer enabled. IDK if it would work over SSH, but I can view pictures from TTY without having X enabled with it.

answered Jan 17 '12 at 16:19

Rob

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Is it possible to view images in a terminal?

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