How to view random images recursively?

[Rytron]

Hi.

Does anyone know how to view random images recursively? A GUI or terminal method?

Lets say I will use eog (Eye of GNOME) or gthumb to view the images.

Cheers.

[irw]

I don't know how to do this with eog or gthumb, but I use feh:

feh -rzsZFD 5 /home/ian/Pictures/

recursive, random, fullscreen slideshow; change every 5 seconds

h - pause
m - menu
< - rotate left 90
> - rotate right 90
+/- speed up/slow down delay

Ian

[TeoBigusGeekus]

You can use the shuf command with find.
Let's say that you want to view random images (jpgs and pngs) from ~/Pictures, ~/My Photos and ~/Camera Shots. You can use something like

eog $(find ~/Pictures "~/My Photos" "~/Camera Shots" \( -iname "*.png" -or -iname "*.jpg" \) | shuf -n1)

[Rytron]

Thats odd, I never got email notifications for these posts. [Edit - it actually was my spam filter acting up]

Thanks guys for the code lines.

[Rytron]

You can use the shuf command with find.
Let's say that you want to view random images (jpgs and pngs) from ~/Pictures, ~/My Photos and ~/Camera Shots. You can use something like

eog $(find ~/Pictures "~/My Photos" "~/Camera Shots" \( -iname "*.png" -or -iname "*.jpg" \) | shuf -n1)

I tried this modification of your code.

eog $(find ~/Pictures \( -iname "*.png" -or -iname "*.jpg" \) | shuf -n1)

It opens a picture (the same photo every time) from 2003 and then opens photos in order after that (all from 2003 folder).

[Adrian98]

I have used the third party applications to view the random images recursively!!

[Rytron]

I have used the third party applications to view the random images recursively!!

Hi. Could you name them?