Bash one-liners: covert images to base64 and embed in HTML

image2html.sh

# USAGE: image2html /path/to/images/*.png > out.html

function image2html(){
    for f in $@; do b=$(cat "$f" | base64 -w 0); echo "<img src=\"data:image/${f##*.};base64,${b}\" alt=\"${f%.*}\">"; done
}

export -f image2html