Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

On 2025-06-23, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:

I would use xv (by John Bradley) for that. It used to be in most Linux
distros, but does not seem to be anymore.  More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)

I remember xv (and used it and loved it). I had wondered where it went. 

The little swimming fish time-passing sprite was cool.

Thanks for the tip.

pH

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At Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:16:08 -0000 (UTC) pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> wrote:
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I've got a pile of scanned family slides in various directories.
 
They need to be further subdivided and catagorized so here's my scenario:
 
1: I have directory 'A' full of jpgs.
 
2: I make a few (3-5) suitable sub-directories in that directory.
  (eg: "pets" "cars" "ski_trip" etcetera)
 
3: Is there a program that will display a thumbnail of a jpg (or any size, I
guess) and list the subdirectories somewhere on the screen,
1 - pets
2 - cars
3 - ski trip
 
Then display a pic, ask me for a # and move the jpg to that corresponding sub-dir
(maybe with a prompt) with  <CR>/<SPC>  to just leave it where it is.  Q or
ESC to quit.
 
So that's one way.
 
 
Another way might be a program to go through and let me 'tag' the pics of
interest (just one topic) and when at
the end move all the tagged pics to the sub-dir of choice.  But this way
would require (possibly) lots of passes through the source dir picking out a
category each time...not the end of the world, of course.
 
 
Was I clear enough?  Any suggestions?
 
Pureheart in Aptos
 
This is not a horrible or urgent problem.  A typical directory that I want
to split up might have 300 entries.
 
 
Pureheart in Aptos, CA
                                                                                                                         
 

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