Image type and size from the Linux command line
Written by Guillermo Garron
Date: 2011-08-01 15:20:00 00:00
This is another small tip, but very useful for webmasters, you know that a webpage loads faster if you define the height and width of an image in the html code.
But what if you do not know that info of a given image?, you can always fire the GIMP or any other graphical application to check the size of a given picture but you can easily do it from the command line.
identify picture.jpg
The output of the that command may be something like this:
picture.jpg JPEG 1500x1000 1500x1000+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 104KB 0.000u 0:00.000
You now know that this is a JPEG file of 1500x1000 pixels, 8-bit depth and 104 KB.
It helps me a lot when adding pictures to this site.