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sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/imgcat -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnachman/iTerm2/master/tests/imgcat && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/imgcat
# If you have a better way to fix the permissions, comment below!
@rjpcasalino
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And if you care to you can also syslink it: ln -s /usr/local/bin/imgcat imgcat

@Barbery
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Barbery commented Aug 23, 2018

thank you!

@ytyng
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ytyng commented Dec 25, 2018

Thank you, but

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnachman/iTerm2/master/tests/imgcat
content is

# moved to https://iterm2.com/utilities/imgcat

We can use
sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/imgcat -O https://iterm2.com/utilities/imgcat && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/imgcat

https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

@sarnobat
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sarnobat commented Sep 3, 2019

Thank you very much for the updated command ytyng. I would have given up when the first command wasn't working.

The only problem with imgcat over ssh is that we don't get all those nice command line options like we do on Mac. Still, this is the best thing to happen to the terminal in years.

@rhartzell
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I love it! Thank you for the gist!

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