Port of the week: sxiv

• Author: Solène
• Date: 13 May 2016
• Tags: portoftheweek

NILThis week I will talk about the command line image viewer

• sxiv*. While it's a command line tool, of course it spawn a X

window to display the pictures. It's very light and easy of use,

it's my favorite image viewer.

Quick start: (you should read the man page for more informations)

• sxiv file1 file2... : Sxiv open only files given as

parameter or filenames from stdin

• p/n : previous/next

• f : fullscreen

• 12 G : go to 12th image of the list

• Return : switch to the thumbnails mode / select the image from the thumbnails mode

• q : quit

• a lot more in the well written man page !

For power users who have a LOT of pictures to sort: Sxiv has a nice

function that let you mark images you see and dump the list of

marked images in a file (see parameter -o).

Tip for zsh users, if you want to read every jpg files in a tree, you

can use sxiv **/*.jpg globbing as seen in the Zsh cheat sheet

:).

In OpenBSD ports tree, check graphics/sxiv.