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people use dos...? anyway, there are perfectly reasonable ways to do that in DOS that dont have inherent ambiguities, and are not specific to one shell. the imagemagick CLI components should each do one thing and do it well; generating a list of files is a separate task. even if this was working ...

No % is not special in shell. never said it was. i was referring to the earlier poster who suggested i quote it. It is a IM 'feature' but for your case it is a bug. It probably should ignore %d if no [...] component has been provided. this is not a case of a poorly documented feature with a ...

identify without -verbose prints nothing if the filename contains a %d. this is on ubuntu 12.10, 3.5.0-13 amd64, 6.7.7-10 2012-08-17 Q16. identify with -verbose, or convert FILE :info, work normally. here is the output showing what WORKS and what does NOT work: wolke:/tmp/a$ for x in a%d.png a%\!d ...

crap, this isnt the bug forum. thanks, didnt realize because of the redirect for signing up to the forums.

fmw42 wrote:This also works

convert 1%d.jpg info:

aaaand you just saved me from writing a wrapper to simulate the output from -verbose. thanks again!

just to be crystal clear, THIS IS STILL A BUG, and confirmed by another user independently.
in fact, it means i cant use or rely upon identify without passing the verbose flag in.

fmw42 wrote:This works on IM 6.7.9.3 Q16, though without the -verbose it still returns no informaton:

identify -verbose 1%d.jpg

oh snap, me too. ok, so its an error on the output somehow. thanks for that! i now have a solution to the problem immediately at hand.

also, as for the version: 2012-08-17 is recent enough, yes?

Yes, i tried quoting the files, but you realize, thats handled by the SHELL, not by imagemagick; imagemagick receives the argument as the SAME STRING whether its quoted or not. {% is not special in bash.} thanks for the help, but this is actually a bug, not my shell interpolation misunderstanding ...

"identify" on linux {ubuntu 12.10 amd64 3.5.0-13-generic} doesnt output anything on filenames that have "%d" in them. /tmp/a$ md5sum * 0115516fc61d2d1e6f094c22ac95051e a-d.png 0115516fc61d2d1e6f094c22ac95051e a%d.png /tmp/a$ identify a-d.png a-d.png PNG 80x80 80x80+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 581B 0.000u ...