Show HN: a Rust Based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images

• imgcatr

  1 215 7.4 Rust

  cat for images, by RUST 🦀️

• i2a-rs

  1 38 - Rust

  Image to ASCII tool. (Rust version)

I've made one years ago, supporting gif

https://github.com/hsfzxjy/i2a-rs

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• dotfiles

  2 4 9.1 Python

  dotfiles (by williamcotton)

If you're on MacOS an imgcat tool pairs well with an imgpbcopy tool like this:

https://github.com/williamcotton/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/im...

Then creating a shell function like:

  imgc() {

• cppfront

  85 5,103 9.5 C++

  A personal experimental C++ Syntax 2 -> Syntax 1 compiler

• depi

  1 2 7.5 Rust

  A command-line tool for viewing images

  

I tried this two years ago when I was still actively 'learning' Rust: https://github.com/Dirout/depi

• murex

  55 1,370 9.6 Go

  A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling)

This is how murex works too https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/config/defaults/p...

• timg

  8 1,749 8.7 C++

  A terminal image and video viewer.

timg is a really nice similar tool that does pixel graphics in the terminal window if supported, falling back to character graphics if not.

The big plus is that it supports SVG images.

https://github.com/hzeller/timg

And it is available via brew/apt/etc.

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• oculante

  5 709 9.5 Rust

  A fast and simple image viewer / editor for many opering systems

While not CLI, I always look for cross platform image viewers and found https://github.com/woelper/oculante.

Had a few woes compiling it due to my laptops configuration, but once compiled it works with everything I would reasonably throw at it.

• gotermimg

  1 31 - Go

  Display images and play gifs in your 256 color terminal!

I love seeing how many people wrote one of these. I've written 2:

One to learn golang - https://github.com/moshen/gotermimg

And one in perl - https://github.com/moshen/Image-Term256Color

• Image-Term256Color

  1 37 - Perl

  Discontinued Display images in your 256 color terminal! (kinda) - superseded by https://github.com/moshen/gotermimg

I love seeing how many people wrote one of these. I've written 2:

One to learn golang - https://github.com/moshen/gotermimg

And one in perl - https://github.com/moshen/Image-Term256Color

• viu

  16 2,375 4.0 Rust

  Terminal image viewer with native support for iTerm and Kitty

I've been using viu, which is also written in Rust: https://github.com/atanunq/viu

How does imgcatr compare?

Viu was last updated 5 months ago, imgcatr 3 months ago, not a significant difference. imgcatr is a longer name than viu, requiring more keystrokes to type.

• sixel-tmux

  34 455 0.0 C

  sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

It's not really that strange that tmux doesn't support sixels. It's quite a bit more complicated and resource-intensive than ANSI Escape Codes or ncurses.

It might be fine for local[1] multiplexing but over the network it is not as fast as even something like VNC or RDP.

[1] https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/

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