[ale] script

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Cor van Dijk wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> I am trying to write a script which will feed a single line of output of
> "locate" into a simple imageviewer like
> "gqview" or "kview" (redhat6.2). I tried both shell scripting and Perl,
> so far with little succes. Obvious things
> like piping wont work.  Perl seems to categorize this problem under
> "interacting with strangers". Also, there might be image viewers which
> will accept a command line from a file, but I haven't found any.
> Any ideas welcome.

xv $(locate FILES_WITH_THIS_PATTERN)

If you're using a different shell, you might have to use:

xv `locate FILES_WITH_THIS_PATTERN`

> 
> Cor van Dijk
> 
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