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

On 2025-06-23, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc, pH  <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> wrote:

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

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I use `feh` for such purposes. You can assign "actions" to the numbers
(0, 1, 2, 3 ..) so that when you view images you can hit a number and
run an action with the filename. Critically, it does not list the
actions anywhere so you might want to use a notepad.
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I document my use here: https://qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2020/03/22/new-logos
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For your case something like:
>
mkdir pets cars ski-trip
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feh --action1 "mv '%f' pets/"     \
    --action2 "mv '%f' cars/"     \
    --action3 "mv '%f' ski-trip/" \
    --scale-down                  \
    --cycle-once       *.jpg
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This looks very promising.  Hopefully I can add a "do nothing" case, too.
I'll read up on it.

pH

I've been using feh since 1999 or so[*] and find it the most useful image
viewer. Documentation is via man page, `feh --help` will only tell
you "See 'man feh'"
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[*] It has long had a feature to view images specified by URL. It also
    has a feature to reload an image after a certain amount of time. I
    vividly remember using it to periodically reload the some news
    website's (probably CNN) map of states called for Bush or Gore that
    fateful Tuesday in November 2000. I just didn't want to keep the
    whole webpage open.
>
Elijah
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has various "${noun}sort" feh themes