---
name: "img2irc"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "caca-utils"
version: "0.99.beta11.debian-2"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/img2irc"
---

# img2irc(1)

convert images to IRC coloured files

## NAME

img2irc - convert images to IRC coloured files

## SYNOPSIS

**img2irc IMAGE \[COLUMNS\]**

## DESCRIPTION

**img2irc** convert images to colour ASCII characters and outputs them to text using mIRC colour codes.

**img2irc** can load the most widespread image formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP etc. By default the output text is 60 columns wide; this value can be changed by appending a second argument to the commandline.

## EXAMPLES

img2irc hello.jpg \> hello.txt

img2irc hello.jpg 40 \> tinyhello.txt

## BUGS

This program could be merged into **cacaview** or expanded to support multiple output formats.

## SEE ALSO

[cacaview(1)](/cacaview/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar \<sam@zoy.org\>.