Animated Gif's

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pottster
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Animated Gif's

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Is there a way to search for animated gif's (excluding non-animated gif's)?
therube
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Re: Animated Gif's

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Seemingly an animated GIF will have the string, "NETSCAPE2.0" in its header, so a search for that should turn up your wanted GIFs.

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grep -F "NETSCAPE2.0" *.gif
Or any other program that will search file contents.
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pottster
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Re: Animated Gif's

Post by pottster »

Thanks for the suggestion. Much appreciated.

Would I have to use a Grep search tool to use this search?
therube
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Re: Animated Gif's

Post by therube »

Doesn't have to be grep. There are a multitude of tools to search within files.

Or maybe even a picture viewer program, that can filter by .gif, & then further enumerate animated .gif?
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