view images inside a terminal

I often use my pi over ssh (or really mosh). Sometimes I want to view an image on the pi, but I don’t want to mess with an x server or anything fancy.

I use caca-utils for this; it converts images into ascii-art and renders them directly into the terminal

install

sudo apt-get install caca-utils

usage

cacaview image.png

controls

• + Zoom in

• - Zoom out

• d Change differ

• hjkl: Move

credit

from mark’s space