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ThreepWood

#! Member

Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 68

bashscript (?) to pipe found pictures to an image viewer

Hellow there fellow crunchbangers...i hope somebody can lighten me up.

What i'm trying to achieve is to submit a search with

find ~/ -name "*.jpg" | gpicview 

to pipe the results to gpicview...
Obviously this doesn't work (or else i wouldn't be posting).

My question is, how to do such a thing? Pipe results from a search to see the pictures with some image-viewer? Whitout the need to copy them before to a temp directory, of course.

Anybody knows a method? Any ideas?

Would be a for...loop in the search results a better way to do it?
As i'm still newbee with the command line, all replies are welcome.

Thank You for Your attention.

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anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: bashscript (?) to pipe found pictures to an image viewer

Try this:

gpicview `find ~/ -name "*.jpg"`

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johnraff

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From: Nagoya, Japan

Registered: 2009-01-07

Posts: 3,265

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Re: bashscript (?) to pipe found pictures to an image viewer

The problem is gpicview only takes one argument.  ( Once you've opened an image you can browse to all the other images in that folder though. )

In general, to send the results of a "find" search to some program you can use "xargs" like this:

 find -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 gedit

will open all the *.txt files in tags in gedit. (The -print0 and -0 options are to protect you from files with spaces or newlines in their names.)

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luc

#! Die Hard

From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 597

Re: bashscript (?) to pipe found pictures to an image viewer

what about :

find ~/ -name "*.jpg" | while read line
do
gpicview $line &
done

this should open each match in a new window

benj1

Wiki Wizard

From: Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2009-09-05

Posts: 1,084

Re: bashscript (?) to pipe found pictures to an image viewer

gpicview will automatically show pictures added to its current directory so

mkdir /tmp/pictures
for PIC in $(find ~/ -name *.jpg); do 
    ln -s $PIC /tmp/pictures  ( or if you prefer cp $PIC /tmp/pictures)
done
gpicview /tmp/pictures/*
rm -r /tmp/pictures

untested but should work, you'll only get one instance of gpicview.

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