General Commands Manual

NAME¶

asciiart - command line tool to turn images into ASCII art

SYNOPSIS¶

asciiart [options] <path_or_url>

asciiart is a command line tool to turn images into ASCII art. It can also be used as a library in Ruby programs.

-w, --width WIDTH

Width of the finished Ascii Art (Default: 100)

-f, --format [text/html]

output format (Default: text)

-c, --color

Switch to use colored terminal output (Default: false)

-i, --invert-chars

Invert the character map. Depending on your terminal and image this can make the image clearer (or a lot worse)

-v, --version

print asciiart version.

-h, --help

show this message.

November 2015