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pho – lightweight image viewer

pho (pronounced like the first syllable in “photo”) is a lightweight program for viewing large numbers of images quickly,

catimg renders images in the terminal. It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF formats.

pxv is an instant feature rich terminal image viewer. It claims to be as fast as catimg, if not faster.

iv is a command-line image viewer which uses Sixel, iTerm Inline Images, or Kitty graphics protocols where available.

imv is a command line image viewer intended for use with tiling window managers.

inotail is a replacement for the ‘tail’ program found in the base installation of every Linux system.

colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it’s specified which patterns results in which colors.

ptail is a small, and likely useless, utility that truncates the output from processes.

retail can output that part of a file (or pipe) following the last match of a regular expression,

This article spotlights alternatives tools to watch. The software featured here is free and open source goodness.