seventyeight/viu

A command-line application to view images from the terminal written in Rust.

viu

Description

A small command-line application to view images from the terminal written in Rust. It uses lower half blocks (▄ or \u2584) to fit 2 pixels into a single cell by adjusting foreground and background colours accordingly.

Installation

From source

Installation from source required a local Rust environment.

git clone https://github.com/atanunq/viu.git

# Build & Install
cd viu/
cargo install --path .

# Use
viu img/smallimage.jpg

Binary

A precompiled binary can be downloaded from the release page.

Packages

Arch Linux

There is an AUR package available for Arch Linux.

Usage

Examples:

• viu img/smallimage.jpg
• viu img/*

The shell will expand the wildcard above and viu will display all the images in the folder one after the other. For a more informative output when dealing with folders the flag -n could be used.

Aspect Ratio

If no flags are supplied to viu it will try to get the size of the terminal where it was invoked. If it succeeds it will fit the image and preserve the aspect ratio. The aspect ratio will be changed only if both options -w and -h are used together.

Command line options

USAGE:
    viu [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <FILE>...

FLAGS:
    -m, --mirror     Display a mirror of the original image
    -n, --name       Output the name of the file before displaying
    -v, --verbose    Output what is going on

OPTIONS:
    -h, --height <height>    Resize the image to a provided height
    -w, --width <width>      Resize the image to a provided width

ARGS:
    <FILE>...    The image to be displayed