Basic Linux Terminal Tips and Tricks: Learn to Work Quickly on the Command Line

© Philip Kirkbride 2020

P. KirkbrideBasic Linux Terminal Tips and Trickshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6035-7_16

16. Terminal Tools for Working with Images and Videos

Philip Kirkbride¹ 

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Montreal, QC, Canada

 

While the command line is primarily text based, there are surprisingly some great tools for working with images and videos which rival or in some cases are the basis for their GUI equivalents. For example, if you’ve used any type of website that modifies or generates images, it’s likely it was using ImageMagick on the back end. In the same way, if you’ve used any Linux-based video editor, there is a good chance it was built on top of ffmpeg.

Given that many of these visual-based programs are simply calling the command-line equivalents, you ...