Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Anthony, Now I can't get this url to work. It should be the same as the link above, but maybe it's not a url type image magick likes? #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/convert "http://water.weather.gov/precip/index.php?yday=1328616000&yday_analysis=0&layer[]=0&layer[]=1&layer[]=4&timetype=RECENT&loctype=STATE ...

thanks much sir! I was just missing quoting the image. Sure helps to have a second set of eyes.

Is there a way to take a url that is php and turn that output on the webpage to an image? I'm doing this same thing using convert then the url. But that url pulls up a gif image that I can alter. I'm assuming the problem is that the webpage from the php url isn't an image. here's the url: http ...

fmw42- Maybe this is Fred! Thanks for the bash code. I will give that a try. Looks like what I'm looking for.
thanks much.

it does run in a shell, but I'm trying to have it run every 10 minutes. That's why I'm trying to turn it into a file that I can set up in a crontab. A crontab is like scheduled tasks only run from my linux web server.

I have a simple cmd file that works on a windows machine. I want to do the same thing in a crontab on a web server running linux. I can log onto my server through SSH and type the same commands and it works. But how do i make those commands into a file that I can tell a crontab to run. I tried a php ...