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view images inside a terminal

Pi Guide

# 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

# credit

from mark’s space