Clipping paths on Linux

[Brian P]

I have a lot of images with clipping paths, and I need all the backgrounds to be white.

Here is what I think the command should look like:

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convert +clip-path #1 -fill white -draw "color 0,0 reset" in.jpg out.jpg

- and that works as it should on a windows machine. When I try it on linux, it won't accept it as a valid convert command. It just shows the help page.

What am I doing wrong?

Any help is much appreciated.

[rmagick]

The # is the comment character in bash, so you must escape it or surround it with apostrophes:

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convert +clip-path \#1 -fill white -draw "color 0,0 reset" in.jpg out.jpg
convert +clip-path '#1' -fill white -draw "color 0,0 reset" in.jpg out.jpg

[Brian P]

It worked - thank you very much.

I guess I have been staring for too long at the command so I missed the obvious error.