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From: pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org>
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Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:45:56 -0000 (UTC)
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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
>
> 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.
>
> I document my use here: https://qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2020/03/22/new-logos
>
> For your case something like:
>
> mkdir pets cars ski-trip
>
> feh --action1 "mv '%f' pets/"     \
>     --action2 "mv '%f' cars/"     \
>     --action3 "mv '%f' ski-trip/" \
>     --scale-down                  \
>     --cycle-once       *.jpg
>

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'"
>
> [*] 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
> ------
> has various "${noun}sort" feh themes