Re: [mathias.dahl@gmail.com: Re: Tumme fails with default custom settings]

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:24:07 -0400 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> "Mathias Dahl" wrote:
>
>> I am curious though, from the following text, where does it say that
>> comments will not be removed if we use -strip?
>
> I guess you meant "will be removed". It doesn't say it there, but in
> the man page I have for convert, or in the output of --help, it says:
>
>    -strip               strip image of all profiles and comments
>
> This is
>
> Version: ImageMagick 6.0.7 02/15/07 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
>
> on rhel 4.4.
>
>> BTW, would using single quotes (') around the asterisk maybe work better?
>
> Possibly, though I don't see why. Stephen, what is your shell, and
> what happens if you do the following in a directory with files:
>
> echo "*"
> echo '*'

M-x getenv RET SHELL RET
    => /bin/bash

$ cd /tmp
$ ls | wc -l
158
$ echo "*"
*
$ echo '*'
*

bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i586-suse-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
ppwd 0
dirs +0

It didn't help to use +profile '*'; however, using -strip in its place
makes tumme work fine for me (just like having neither -strip nor
+profile).

Steve Berman