1Pamexec User Manual(0)                                  Pamexec User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       pamexec  -  Execute  a  shell  command  on each image in a Netpbm image
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SYNOPSIS

11       pamexec
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19       Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable.  You may use  dou‐
20       ble  hyphens  instead  of single hyphen to denote options.  You may use
21       white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from
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DESCRIPTION

27       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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29       pamexec  reads a Netpbm image stream as input.  For each image, it runs
30       a specified shell command and supplies the image to it as Standard  In‐
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33       netpbmfile  is  the file name of the input file, or - to indicate Stan‐
34       dard Input.  The default is Standard Input.
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36       Many Netpbm programs understand multimage Netpbm streams themselves, so
37       you  don't  need to use pamexec to run the program on the images in the
38       stream.  Ideally, all Netpbm programs would have that  capability,  but
39       multi-image  streams are a relatively recent invention, so older Netpbm
40       programs just process the first image in  the  stream  and  then  stop.
41       Even  recently written Netpbm programs work that way, since the authors
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44       Another way to process a multi-image stream is to use pamsplit  to  ex‐
45       plode it into multiple files, one image per file.  You can then process
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48       To run your command on a subset  of  the  images  in  the  stream,  use
49       pampick to select the desired images from the input stream and pipe the
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OPTIONS

55       In addition to the options common to all programs  based  on  libnetpbm
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57        Common  Options  ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩  ), pamexec recognizes the
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APPLICATIONS

69       To make an animated GIF movie:
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LIMITATIONS

76       pamexec  assumes  all commands consume all of Standard Input.  If yours
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HISTORY

85       pamexec was new in Netpbm 10.56 (September 2011).
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87       Michael Pot wrote it, borrowing from pamsplit.
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SEE ALSO

92       pamfile(1), pampick(1), pamsplit(1), pnm(1), pam(1), cat man page
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

95       This  manual  page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
96       source.  The master documentation is at
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100netpbm documentation            11 August 2011          Pamexec User Manual(0)