gat

gat

Graphical cat command

# Local file
% gat ./samples/sample.png

# By URL
% gat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/otiai10/gat/master/samples/sample.png

Platform	Terminal App	How it looks
iTerm2 inline images	iTerm2
Kitty	Ghostty
Sixel	WezTerm Windows Terminal
TrueColor	(any terminals)

Install

go install github.com/otiai10/gat@latest

Options

# Interactive deletion mode
gat -i [imagefile]
# then you'll see it and be asked if you wanna delete it.

# iTerm and Sixel
gat -S 0.5 [imagefile] # Scale of output image

# Only for cell grid mode
gat -c [imagefile]      # Use cell grid mode
gat -H 20 [imagefile]   # Rows of output
gat -W 40 [imagefile]   # Cols of output
gat -b [imagefile]      # Print border
gat -t="**" [imagefile] # Text to be printed for each cell
gat -debug [imagefile]  # Dump available colors and color for each cell

As a library

import "github.com/otiai10/gat/render"

r := render.GetDefaultRenderer()
r.Render(os.Stdout, img)

See https://godoc.org/github.com/otiai10/gat/render for more information.

Thanks

• https://github.com/fatih/color/blob/master/color.go
• https://gist.github.com/MicahElliott/719710
• http://hiroki.jp/2012/06/17/4398/
• http://www.m-bsys.com/linux/echo-color-1
• http://qiita.com/mollifier/items/40d57e1da1b325903659
• http://d.hatena.ne.jp/zariganitosh/20150224/escape_sequence
• http://vorfee.hatenablog.jp/entry/2015/03/17/173635