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by Sean Colombo
2012-07-09T22:18:37-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: 'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks
Replies: 6
Views: 7974

Re: 'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks

EG: for the literal filename ***.jpg you will need to use '\*\*\*.jpg' Note both quotes AND backslashes. I tried with all permutations of both single and double-quotes and single and double backslashes. None of them worked in my case. I don't have the results in front of me, but as I recall it, whe...
by Sean Colombo
2012-07-09T16:38:18-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: 'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks
Replies: 6
Views: 7974

Re: 'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks

see http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19215&p=75037&hilit=filename+characters#p75037 Anthony will have to help here if this does not answer your question. Also you have a very old version of IM. I cannot say if this has been corrected since then, given the ...
by Sean Colombo
2012-07-09T14:20:12-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: 'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks
Replies: 6
Views: 7974

Re: 'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks

To help the IM developers, you should provide your IM version and platform. Good call: $> compare --version Version: ImageMagick 6.5.7-8 2010-12-02 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2009 ImageMagick Studio LLC Features: OpenMP $> cat /etc/*-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTR...
by Sean Colombo
2012-07-09T14:01:34-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: 'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks
Replies: 6
Views: 7974

'Compare' hanging on filenames with asterisks

I've run compare on about 6 million files, but I've run into a stumbling-block where it hangs indefinitely on a file which contains a bunch of asterisks in the name. Here is the exact command I'm using: compare -metric MEPP "/raid/compressed_images/by_id/b/bakugan-world/images/9/9c/************...