How to view search results in gthumb or similar software

g00ey · 08-04-2016, 06:56 AM

Let's say I issue the command

locate background.png

Then I get a list of search hits for that. If I instead issue

locate background.png | xargs ls -l

I can get more information about each entry of the search results, such as file size, date of creation, etc.

But if I want to be able to view the results in a program such as gthumb and quickly browse through the search results in it, how do I issue the query then?

What program would be recommended if I instead did a search on .svgz files? gthumb doesn't support svgz.

tofino_surfer · 08-24-2016, 04:58 PM

>But if I want to be able to view the results in a program such as gthumb and quickly browse through the search results in it, how do I issue the query then?

You can do something like

1) eog $( find *.jpg ) &

or in your case

2) gthumb $(locate background.png) &

The only problem you may have is with file names with spaces in them. I don't have gthumb but have eog graphics viewer and command #1 worked for all files except one that had spaces inside.

What program would be recommended if I instead did a search on .svgz files? gthumb doesn't support svgz.

This is to be expected. SVG is an XML-based vector graphics format. gthumb is a viewer for bitmapped graphics formats.

You should use inkscape as it is a Linux SVG editor. It opens up a window for each file on the command line.

[andrew@server47 status]
05:34 PM $ inkscape $(find *.svg) &
[2] 16662
[andrew@server47 status]
05:34 PM $ find *.svg
yelp-note-bug.svg
yelp-note-important.svg
yelp-note.svg
yelp-note-tip.svg
yelp-note-warning.svg

Five inkscape windows were opened with the command inkscape $(find *.svg) &

IsaacKuo · 08-24-2016, 06:40 PM

You can pipe the output from the find command to a utility script that makes a folder of symlinks to the results. Put this in ~/linkem.sh:

Code:

#! /bin/bash
#
# Links files specified in stdin into ~/flist/

echo "Cleaning up ~/flist/"
mkdir ~/flist
rm -fvr ~/flist/*

x=1000001

while read -r line ; do
  dest="/home/kuo/flist/$x.jpg"
  echo "$dest -> $line"
  ln -s "$line" "$dest"
  ((x++))
done

Replace /home/kuo with your own home directory. Then, you can pipe the results of a "find" command (use full path) with something like this:

Code:

find /home/kuo/bak/pic/wall -type f -name "*ink*.jpg" | ~/linkem.sh

You can then use an image browser such as geeqie in ~/flist/

This is an unsophisticated script that I whipped up just now, but it could be refined into something more pleasant to use.

DavidMcCann · 08-25-2016, 11:48 AM

As usual, the GUI is generally a better bet for this sort of thing (provided you have one, of course).

1. Start the file manager and choose the search option
or
2. Run the search tool from the menu.

Either way you will get a list of files and you can view any or all by double clicking. Simple!