akukhta / cmdimg

CLI Utility to preview files directly from the command line

cmdimg

CLI Utility to preview media files directly from the command line

Dependencies

• OpenCV
  • OpenCV is being used to actually read and decompress an image. Could be used more lightweight library/own implementation
• FTXUI
  • A great library to create fancy GUI for a command line application. The library repository

Building

git clone https://github.com/akukhta/cmdimg
cd cmdimg
bootstrap_x86_debug.bat

Usage

cmdimg scream.jpg

Warning

To actually preview the image, the terminal should support true color!

Note

Currently the tool supports only following formats: BMP, JPG, JP2, PNG, WEBP, AVIF, PBM, PFM, SR, TIFF, EXR, HDR, PIC, AVI