open-image
Renders bitmap image data on your terminal
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.
<stdin> -> open-image -> <stdout>
open-image file-path -> <stdout>
» cat example.png -> open-image
» open-image example.png
open-image
will fail if stdout is not a TTY.
open-image
open
: Open
a file with a preferred handlerqr
: Creates a QR code
from stdinThis document was generated from builtins/core/openimage/open-image_doc.yaml.
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