asciiart(1)

💖 asciiart(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is iconic. it's asciiart, a lil command line tool that turns your images into ASCII art. yes, like the ancient internet magic. she's serving terminal-core and we're obsessed 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

asciiart — a command line tool to turn images into ASCII art. that's it, that's the girl 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

asciiart [options] <path_or_url>

literally just point her at a <path_or_url> and she goes. options are optional (shocking, i know) 🙈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so asciiart is a command line tool to turn images into ASCII art. it takes your pic and gives you back... characters. vibes. art. no cap ✨

and the best part? she's not just a CLI baddie — you can also use her as a library in your Ruby programs. multi-talented. main character energy fr fr 👑

💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -w, --width WIDTH — sets the Width of the finished Ascii Art. default? 100. so if you want a skinny lil strip or a full-width masterpiece, this is your girl 🫶
• -f, --format [text/html] — the output format. default is text. yes you can get html too, she contains multitudes 💅
• -c, --color — Switch to use colored terminal output. default is false. turn this on and the whole thing pops, i'm literally not kidding 🌈
• -i, --invert-chars — Invert the character map. Depending on your terminal and image this can make the image clearer (or a lot worse). ngl it's a gamble, but a fun one 🎲
• -v, --version — print asciiart version. short, sweet, to the point ⭐
• -h, --help — show this message. your lil emergency contact when you forget everything 🥺

heads up bestie: -i is highkey a coin flip. the manpage itself says it can make things clearer or a lot worse — and we respect the honesty 💀

and that's the whole page, you ate it, i'm so proud 🎀

this lil love letter is from the General Commands Manual, dated November 2015, and it's asciiart(1) — go make something beautiful out of pixels and punctuation, bestie 💖✨🦋