imv Command Examples

CLI image viewer for wayland and X11 aimed at tiling window managers. Handles multiple formats including Photoshop (PSD). More information: https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv.

• View multiple images:

imv {{path/to/image1.ext path/to/image2.ext ...}}

• View in fullscreen mode:

imv -f {{path/to/image.ext}}

• View images [r]ecursively from a path:

imv -r --slideshow {{path/to/path}}

• Open multiple images via stdin:

find . -type f -name "{{*.svg}}" | imv

• Make a slideshow from a directory showing each image for 10 seconds:

imv -t 10 {{path/to/directory}}

• View multiple images from the web:

curl -Osw '%{filename_effective}\n' '{{http://www.example.com/[1-10].jpg}}' | imv