Notes on imgcat command

• Introduction
• Basic commands
  • imgcat a local file
  • Using Standard Input (stdin)
  • Using Image Conversion Tools
  • Remote Images
• Supported format
• Reference

Introduction

imgcat is command line tool for output picture to Terminal.

Basic commands

imgcat a local file

$ imgcat some_image.jpg

Using Standard Input (stdin)

You can pipe image data to imgcat by using standard input redirection (<). For example, if you have an image file image.png and you want to pipe its contents to imgcat, you can do this:

cat image.png | imgcat

Using Image Conversion Tools

Sometimes, you might use tools like convert (from ImageMagick) to convert or generate images and then pipe the result to imgcat. For instance:

convert -size 100x100 gradient:red-blue -depth 8 PNG:- | imgcat

Remote Images

You can also pipe images from URLs or remote sources to imgcat using tools like curl or wget. For example:

curl -sS https://example.com/image.png | imgcat

Supported format

It supports common image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and others that are supported by your terminal emulator.

Reference

1. https://github.com/eddieantonio/imgcat/tree/master
2. https://chatgpt.com/