identify(1x)

identify1x

Describe the format and characteristics of one or more image files.

Usage

identify [options ...] file [file ...]

Overview

identify describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files. It will also report if an image is incomplete or corrupt. The information displayed includes the scene number, the file name, the width and height of the image, whether the image is colormapped or not, the number of colors in the image, the number of bytes in the image, the format of the image (JPEG, PNM, etc.), and finally the number of seconds it took to read and process the image. An example line output from identify follows:

images/aquarium.miff 640x480 PseudoClass 256c 308135b MIFF 1s

If -verbose is set, expect additional output including any image comment:

Image: images/aquarium.miff
class: PseudoClass
colors: 256
signature: eb5dca81dd93ae7e6ffae99a5275a53e
matte: False
geometry: 640x480
depth: 8
bytes: 308135
format: MIFF
comments:

Imported from MTV raster image: aquarium.mtv

Options

-verbose

print detailed information about the image.

This information is printed: image name; the image class (DirectClass or PseudoClass); the total number of unique colors; whether there is a matte associated with the image; the number of runlength packets; the image size; the depth of the image; the image format; the image scene; and finally any image comment. Refer to miff(1) for a description of the image class.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 1.2
  2. 1.3

Authors

John Cristy, E.I. du Pont De Nemours and Company Incorporated

From imagemagick 3.8.2-1 in Debian 1.3 (Bo). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.