genethumb
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genethumb
is a quick and dirty shell script aimed at
generating HTML indexes with thumbnails from a directory full of images.
It is highly unconfigurable, might be buggy, and is quite slow, but it has
happened to be extremely popular amongst friends, so I decided to
make it available. Useful when sorting pr0n (or so I’ve been told).
genethumb
is licenced under the GPL. It requires
convert
and identify
from the package ImageMagick.
genethumb
also has a FreshMeat page.
You might wonder why I did such a script since there were lots
of professional tools to achieve the same goal, with additional
features. Well, I just like the idea of copying one single file to my
~/bin
and being finished with the installation. No need to
worry about missing libraries, you just need ImageMagick installed.
But... but... it sucks !!!
Of course it sucks. It’s slow, it’s unconfigurable. But it works and I like it.