I just needed a quick way to sort through thousands of photos, in order to decide what to keep. So I wrote this simple script:


#!/usr/bin/env bash
for file in ./*; do
img2sixel $file
read -p "Keep [k], delete [D] or edit [e] $file? (Default: Keep)" KkDEe
case $KkDEe in
[D]* ) rm $file;;
[Ee]* ) echo "Starting rawtherapee..." && rawtherapee $file;;
[Kk]* ) ;;
* ) ;;
esac
done


(Unfortunately WordPress removes leading spaces for the code block *sigh*)

(This only works if the folder contains just image files, you might want to instead use something like for file in ./*.jpg instead if you only want to look at a specific file type. Otherwise you will get warnings for files that cannot be displayed as images. In my case photo folders only contain photos.)

Requirements:

– BASH (so simple it can be adapted to other shells easily)
– img2sixel
– terminal emulator that can display SIXEL graphics (such as foot, for example)

This will then show each photos in your terminal along with the question of whether to keep it:

One of the options is to open it in in Rawtherapee, which I occasionally use to fix exposure.

I have an alias sort_through_photos, which allows me to simply type this in and immediately start sorting through photos comfortably, regardless of what folder I am in.