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by berkes 798 days ago
I do a lot of work in the terminal. And every few weeks I'm wishing for something like "cat for images".

"I should write it!". And then realize it already exists and is on my machine. I presume most OSes and distro's have some simple image viewer. Mine, Ubuntu, comes with `eog`.

Very rarely, am I on a machine that has no display, and I still need to view some images that live there. Then the workflow becomes convoluted: transfer images to a local machine, or put them in some http-accessible place. For those cases, I think imgcatr would be great. But then it's not available on these machines, so that kindof defeats the purpose again.

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> Very rarely, am I on a machine that has no display, and I still need to view some images that live there.

X11 forwarding over ssh is an option.