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fix imgcat to be able to display images on tmux https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3898#note_14097715
#!/bin/bash
# tmux requires unrecognized OSC sequences to be wrapped with DCS tmux;
# <sequence> ST, and for all ESCs in <sequence> to be replaced with ESC ESC. It
# only accepts ESC backslash for ST.
function print_osc() {
if [[ -n $TERM ]] ; then
printf "\033Ptmux;\033\033]"
else
printf "\033]"
fi
}
function print_csi() {
printf "\033["
}
# More of the tmux workaround described above.
function print_st() {
if [[ -n $TERM ]] ; then
printf "\a\033\\"
else
printf "\a"
fi
}
# Return the height of the image, or 200 if imagemagick is unavailable.
function get_height() {
identify -format "%h" - 2>/dev/null || echo 200
}
# print_image filename inline base64contents print_filename
# filename: Filename to convey to client
# inline: 0 or 1
# base64contents: Base64-encoded contents
# print_filename: If non-empty, print the filename
# before outputting the image
function print_image() {
VERSION=$(base64 --version 2>&1)
if [[ "$VERSION" =~ fourmilab ]]; then
BASE64ARG=-d
elif [[ "$VERSION" =~ GNU ]]; then
BASE64ARG=-di
else
BASE64ARG=-D
fi
local -i HEIGHT=$(printf "%s" "$3" | base64 $BASE64ARG | get_height)
HEIGHT=$(( (HEIGHT + 19) / 20 ))
for (( I = 0; I < $HEIGHT; I++ )); do
printf "\n"
done
print_csi
printf "?25l"
print_csi
printf "${HEIGHT}F"
print_osc
printf '1337;File='
if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
printf 'name='`printf "%s" "$1" | base64`";"
fi
printf "%s" "$3" | base64 $BASE64ARG | wc -c | awk '{printf "size=%d",$1}'
printf ";inline=$2"
printf ";height=$HEIGHT"
printf ":"
printf "%s" "$3"
print_st
printf '\n'
if [[ -n "$4" ]]; then
echo $1
fi
print_csi
printf "${HEIGHT}E"
print_csi
printf "?25h"
}
function error() {
echo "ERROR: $*" 1>&2
}
function show_help() {
echo "Usage: imgcat [-p] filename ..." 1>& 2
echo " or: cat filename | imgcat" 1>& 2
}
## Main
if [ -t 0 ]; then
has_stdin=f
else
has_stdin=t
fi
# Show help if no arguments and no stdin.
if [ $has_stdin = f -a $# -eq 0 ]; then
show_help
exit
fi
# Look for command line flags.
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case "$1" in
-h|--h|--help)
show_help
exit
;;
-p|--p|--print)
print_filename=1
;;
-*)
error "Unknown option flag: $1"
show_help
exit 1
;;
*)
if [ -r "$1" ] ; then
has_stdin=f
print_image "$1" 1 "$(base64 < "$1")" "$print_filename"
else
error "imgcat: $1: No such file or directory"
exit 2
fi
;;
esac
shift
done
# Read and print stdin
if [ $has_stdin = t ]; then
print_image "" 1 "$(cat | base64)" ""
fi
exit 0
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arifvn commented Jan 19, 2022

@thlorenz what tmux version did you using?

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