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How to display multiple images in Unix command line?

I have 17 .png images I would quite like to look at at the same time so as to compare them. Is there a Unix command that displays all of them together? I have tried researching this but can't seem to find anything!

Solution

  • You could append them all together side-by-side into a combined image with ImageMagick which is in most Linux distros:

    convert *.png -append BigBoy.jpg

    enter image description here

    Then use feh or whatever viewer you like to view BigBoy.jpg. Change -append to +append to join them top-to-bottom instead of side-to-side.

    Or if you wanted them in a grid 4 images across, use montage like this:

    montage -tile 4x -geometry +0+0 *.png montage.jpg

    enter image description here

    Or use the flicker_compare script from the ImageMagick website here like this:

    flicker_cmp -o a.gif *.png

    enter image description here