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carbon-now — Create beautiful images of code. More information: <https://github.com/mixn/carbon-now-cli>.

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Problem

How to use the carbon-now command: Create beautiful images of code. More information: <https://github.com/mixn/carbon-now-cli>.

Solution

carbon-now — Create beautiful images of code. More information: <https://github.com/mixn/carbon-now-cli>.

Create an image from a file using default settings:

carbon-now {{path/to/file}}

Create an image from a text in clipboard using default settings:

carbon-now --from-clipboard

Create an image from stdin using default settings and copy to the clipboard:

{{input}} | carbon-now --to-clipboard

Create images interactively for custom settings and optionally save a preset:

carbon-now {{[-i|--interactive]}} {{path/to/file}}

Create images from a previously saved preset:

carbon-now {{[-p|--preset]}} {{preset}} {{path/to/file}}

Start at a specified line of text:

carbon-now {{[-s|--start]}} {{line}} {{path/to/file}}

End at a specific line of text:

carbon-now {{[-e|--end]}} {{line}} {{path/to/file}}

Open image in a browser instead of saving:

carbon-now --open {{path/to/file}}

Code Snippets

Create an image from a file using default settings

carbon-now {{path/to/file}}

Create an image from a text in clipboard using default settings

carbon-now --from-clipboard

Create an image from `stdin` using default settings and copy to the clipboard

{{input}} | carbon-now --to-clipboard

Create images interactively for custom settings and optionally save a preset

carbon-now {{[-i|--interactive]}} {{path/to/file}}

Create images from a previously saved preset

carbon-now {{[-p|--preset]}} {{preset}} {{path/to/file}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/carbon-now

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