It's like cat but for images.

On OS X:

brew install eddieantonio/eddieantonio/imgcat

Important: See below if you're using iTerm2 3.0 with shell integration installed.

For other platforms, see Build.

imgcat some_image.jpg

See the manpage for more invocations.

If you install iTerm2's shell integration, chances are you also installed its additional scripts, including one called imgcat. iTerm's imgcat overrides this program by default. To see if this is happening to you, use which to determine where your shell is finding imgcat:

which imgcat

If it says imgcat: aliased to /Users/yourusername/.iterm2/imgcat, then you must edit your shell startup file and add unalias imgcat after the line that sources iTerm2's script. For example:

test -e ${HOME}/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh && source ${HOME}/.iterm2_shell_integration.zsh
unalias imgcat

• libncurses5-dev (if make complains about missing term.h, then you don't have it)

(You most likely already have both of these).

• GNU make
• GNU autotools

Then:

autoconf
./configure
make

To install to /usr/local:

make install

To change the default prefix, simply provide PREFIX=... to make install:

make install PREFIX=/opt

• Uses the CImg, distributed under the CeCILL-C license.
• 256 Color chart and data from Jason Milkin's public domain chart.

Copyright © 2014–2019 Eddie Antonio Santos. Distributed under the terms of the ISC license.