Re: convert - special characters in file name

Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> Tue, 7 May 2019 08:25:13 -0500 (CDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 7 May 2019, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> but when I did
>
>  gm convert rose: @rose.gif
>  cp @rose.gif rose.gif
>  gm convert @rose.gif out.gif
>
> things did not work out so well since there was a valid file name matching 
> '@rose.gif' with the '@' removed and GM tried to read it as a list of input 
> files.  Perhaps it could have tried applying file header magic tests first

I did find a simple solution for this problem and will commit a fix 
soon.

Bob
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