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I have ssh access to my web server. I have some image files there and I would like to see a preview of. Is there a tool that will help me? Is there a curses-based viewer that will approximate the picture?

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Oh yes

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I'd +10 this if I could... LOL! Good answer! – skub Jan 16 at 0:10
aview is awesome! Is there any particular difference between the formats .p[ngbp]m? – hesse Jan 16 at 0:19
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The libcaca library comes with img2txt and cacaview tools for this. In color.

One can watch movies through it as well:

mplayer -really-quiet -vo caca ~/Movies/*
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there's also fbi if you have frame buffer enabled. IDK if it would work over SSH, but I can view pictures from TTY without having X enabled with it.

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