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Thanks. Adding *.gif[0] worked.

Hi,
I need to batch resize a lot of animated GIFs and remove the animation. I would like to keep only the first frame. What can I add to mogrify to remove the animation this way?

Thank you

For a script such as this, where can I insert "nohup" command so it runs after I close the ssh connection? I put nohup at the mogrify line but it stops after completing the first directory.

cd
list=`find /backup/gifs/upload/*/big -type d`
echo "list=$list"
for directory in $list; do
echo ...

Thanks for the help. I updated to 6.9 and mogrify now works for batch resizing the gifs.

Than you both for the quick replies.

snibgo, can you tell me how to change my command so it runs in a loop and outputs to a different folder?

fmw42, the convert command I have above works fine for the small batch of animated gifs I tried it with. Mogrify botched everything up. I can test more ...

Hi,
How do I batch resize animated gifs with imagemagick? I have this script which works for single images but I must specify both the exact image name.

convert {path to image with filename}.gif -coalesce -resize 200x200 \
-layers optimize-frame {output name}.gif

mogrify -path seems to batch ...