The ability to view images in a terminal is a very handy skill. I recently ran into this issue when I was working on a project which had over a million images on a network drive.
The problem became a complex one to solve as even running a mere ls command was not an option on the network drive.
Firing up a jupyter notebook server everytime to view an image was not a feasible option. And there had to be a better way.
Upon some searching I found some popular options
- feh
- TerminalImageViewer (tiv)
- Viu
In my use case, the best one which worked the best in my use case was viu because of its support for jpgs.