cacaplay(1)

cacaplay1

Play libcaca files

Usage

cacaplay [FILE]

Overview

cacaplay plays libcaca animation files. These files can be created by any libcaca program by setting the CACA_DRIVER environment variable to raw and storing the program's standard output.

If no file argument is provided or '-' is used, cacaplay will read its data from the standard input.

Examples

cacaplay file.caca

CACA_DRIVER=raw CACA_GEOMETRY=80x32 cacademo | cacaplay

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0–5.0
  2. 6.0–Arch

Author

This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>.

From libcaca 0.99.beta20-7 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.