Is there any sort of utility I can use to convert an image to ASCII and then print it in my terminal? I looked for one but couldn't seem to find any.
To open a picture from terminal, where /path/to/file is the location on the computer your file is stored, with the actual name of the file at the end. Save this answer. To open any file via terminal, you have to locate the path of that file. Then type the name of the application which you want to open the file with.
Load and display image in Python and OpenCV OpenCV will be used to load a local image from the system while PIL will be used to display the image from the terminal. We have specified the color coding of the image that is RGB. This will open a new terminal window that will display the local image.
Cat. The simplest way to view text files in Linux is the cat command. It displays the complete contents in the command line without using inputs to scroll through it. Here is an example of using the cat command to view the Linux version by displaying the contents of the /proc/version file.
I like to use chafa
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You can download Chafa from Chafa's website or from your favourite package manager, like APT:
sudo apt install chafa
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