Linux.com: CLI Magic: Feh for Image Viewing

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 1, 2006

“Too many Linux image viewers are tinged with little
annoyances–they take too long to load, are slow to redraw the
display, have limited format support, sport inconvenient
controls–so when you want to settle on one, inevitably there’s
something to make you utter feh! in general discontent. Good
call–feh is the name of a speedy little viewer that packs in a
surprising number of features for its size.

“Feh takes as arguments the names of image files you want to
view. You can also give directory names, and feh attempts to load
all the files in that directory; the -r option recurses through all
subdirectories…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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