strange file in /tmp

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Mon Nov 1 03:02:01 UTC 2010


On 30Oct2010 18:53, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
| On 30 October 2010 11:17, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:
| > Easy way to check.  Delete the file (it is in /tmp, after all) and then
| > run ImageMagick again on the same two files while watching /tmp.
| 
| I tried those, doesn't seem to reproduce the file (or any file for
| that matter). As far as I recall I tried two things which I don't
| usually do,
| 
| $ convert image1.png image2.png output.png
| 
| and from a remote host,
| 
| $ cat image.png | ssh <localhost> display
| 
| The 2nd one although brought up an ImageMagick window, didn't display
| the image file both times.

You might need to say "display -", not just "display".
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