PixiePlus Users Guide: Section 3.1
One of the best aspects of Pixie is that while it has a ton of features for hardcore image management, it's component based so also makes a great solution for people who just want to take a quick peek at an image from the command-line. When run from the command-line none of the browser or editor features are loaded until needed, so if your just viewing a couple images Pixie is quite small and snappy :)
The simplest example of viewing images from the commandline is just specifying them along with the "pixie" command, ie:
pixie mosfet.jpg
or
pixie *jpg
The images will be displayed according the Pixie's View mode. Once you close the image window the browser plugin will load as usual. This can be avoided - see below.
Since the browser is a dynamic plugin, sometimes you won't want to use it when just quickly viewing a few images. If your in fullscreen mode you can navigate between the images you selected using the back and forward buttons. In any viewing mode the standard keyboard accelerators work, (left and right cursor keys). In this manner you can navigate between images without actually loading the browser.
By default, when your done viewing images the browser component is loaded. This can be skipped by using the -m or --mini option. This causes Pixie to exit after the image window is closed. Another way of accomplishing this is by running minipixie instead of pixie. Minipixie is simply a symbolic link to pixie -m.
Pixie supports a couple commandline options for loading entire directories. The -a or --all option loads all the images in the current directory. The -d or --dir option loads all the images in a directory you specify. Both options only load images; non-image files are skipped. Here's a couple examples:
Load all the images in the funpage directory:
[mosfet@localhost funpage]$ pixie -all
Load all the images in /home/mosfet/friends:
[mosfet@localhost funpage]$ pixie -dir /home/mosfet/friends
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