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DURDRAW(1) User Commands DURDRAW(1)

durdraw - versatile ASCII and ANSI Art text editor for drawing in terminal

durdraw [-h] [-p PLAY [PLAY ...]] [--startup | -w | -x TIMES] [--256color | --16color] [-b] [-W WIDTH] [-H HEIGHT] [-m] [--nomouse] [--cursor CURSOR] [--notheme] [--theme THEME] [--cp437] [--export-ansi] [-u UNDOSIZE] [-V] [filename]

Durdraw is an ASCII, ANSI and Unicode art editor for UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc). It runs in modern Utf-8 terminals and supports frame-based animation, custom themes, 256 and 16 color modes, terminal mouse input, DOS ANSI art viewing, CP437 and Unicode mixing and conversion, HTML output, mIRC color output, and other interesting features.

Durdraw is heavily inspired by classic ANSI editing software for MS-DOS and Windows, such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw, but with a modern Unix twist.

.dur or ascii file to load

show this help message and exit
Just play .dur file or files, then exit
Show startup screen
Pause at startup screen
Play X number of times (requires -p)
--256color
Try 256 color mode
--16color
Try 16 color mode
Use a black background color instead of terminal default
Set canvas width
Set canvas height
Maximum canvas size for terminal (overrides -W and -H)
Disable mouse support
Cursor mode (block, underscore, or pipe)
Disable theme support (use default theme)
Load a custom theme file
Display extended characters on the screen using Code Page 437 (IBM-PC/MS-DOS) encoding instead of Utf-8. (Requires CP437 capable terminal and font) (beta)
Export loaded art to an .ansi file and exit
Set the number of undo history states - default is 100. More requires more RAM, less saves RAM.
Show version number and exit

durfetch, durview

Durdraw is primarily written by Sam Foster <samfoster@gmail.com>. For a full list of contributors, please see the Github page: https://github.com/cmang/durdraw

February 2025 durdraw 0.29.0