For running the animate
utility, use the following scheme:
animate [ options ...] file
We can use the display
options for animate
as their options are almost the same. The simplest usage of animate
is as follows:
animate myimage.gif
This command simply shows the animated frames stored in the myimage.gif
file.
animate *.tif
This one will continuously show all the .tif
files in the current directory.
The important note to Windows users is that the animate
utility is a X server utility so it cannot be executed on Windows. If you type animate
at the command line and press enter you will be encountered an error message box as in Fig 6-1. This is one of the drawbacks of animate
.