Convert format to standard output

[ghell]

I want to convert a JPG to a BMP.

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$ convert foo.jpg bar.bmp

works fine.

However, how can I convert to a BMP and pipe the output to standard out? I tried

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$ convert foo.jpg -

but obviously, it did not know that it was supposed to be converting to bmp and just output jpeg.

I assume that this has something to do with the "-format" argument but anything I tried to put in did not affect the output format and the same JPEG was returned.

I have tried looking at

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identify -list format

but I don't know what I am supposed to be taking from it. I have tried bmp, BMP, BMP*, "Microsoft Windows bitmap image", etc.

I am running ImageMagick 6.3.7 on Debian Lenny AMD64, if that helps.

[magick]

Try this command:

• convert foo.jpg bmp:-

To convert JPEG to BMP on standard out.

[ghell]

Thanks, that did the trick