I know that there are commands like cat, less or even xdg-open, but I really like the convenience of just previewing. GNOME Sushi doesn't seem to support commands from the terminal.
Maybe a similar application can do the job or even writing a script? Is there a way to do this?
I think you might be interested in ranger. It is a terminal-based file manager that uses a three-columns layout. The left column shows the parent directory, with the current directory highlighted, the middle column shows the contents of the current directory and the right column shows a preview of the selected item.
In the above screenshot you can see that I am inside the /var/log directory (left column) and I have selected the faillog file (middle column) which I am previewing (right column).
You can install ranger by running:
sudo apt install ranger
Start it by opening a terminal and running:
ranger
You can move around using the keyboard arrows or VIM-like shortcuts (h, j, k, l). You can open a file in the selected application by pressing Enter or →. You can close ranger by pressing q.
More information can be found in the Official user guide.
Nowaday you can use sushi directly in your terminal with, e.g.:
$ sushi ./something.jpg
It can do exactly only that, and it's great:
$ sushi
The launcher takes exactly one argument
Usage:
sushi FILE
Opens FILE in a NautilusPreviewer window.
ranger, but how easy the configuration of this setting is depends on the terminal you use. See this for enabling image previews and this for enabling video previews. – BeastOfCaerbannog Nov 01 '20 at 16:05