Render Image In Terminal (open-image)

Renders bitmap image data on your terminal

Description

open-image is an optional builtin which will render images (JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF and WebP) to the terminal using block characters and ANSI colour sequences.

Usage

<stdin> -> open-image -> <stdout>

open-image file-path -> <stdout>

Examples

As a method

» cat example.png -> open-image

As a function

» open-image example.png

Detail

open-image will fail if stdout is not a TTY.

Synonyms

• open-image

See Also

• Open File (open): Open a file with a preferred handler
• qr: Creates a QR code from stdin

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This document was generated from builtins/core/openimage/open-image_doc.yaml.