Need help with the "convert" command

[FreakHavoc]

Hey all, I'm trying to add the current date onto my webcam images (and save them as a new image).

The following command works:

convert -pointsize 20 -fill yellow -draw 'text 270,460 "Sunset"' 1.jpg 1b.jpg

It takes the file 1.jpg, adds the text "Sunset" to it and saves it as 1b.jpg.

Can anyone help me change the above line so that it adds the current date and time instead of "Sunset"?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[joan]

You could try replacing "sunset" with "`date`" (backticks within the quotes).

[joan]

You could try replacing "sunset" with "`date`" (backticks within the quotes).

That isn't quite enough because of the quoting.

Use

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convert -pointsize 20 -fill yellow -draw "text 270,460 \"`date`\"" file1.jpg file2.jpg

[Joe Schmoe]

That isn't quite enough because of the quoting.

You might want to re-analyze your position.

[rpdom]

This works

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convert -pointsize 20 -fill yellow -draw "text 270,460 '`date`'" file1.jpg file2.jpg

as does this

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convert -pointsize 20 -fill yellow -draw "text 270,460 '$(date)'" file1.jpg file2.jpg

using the $(comand) format, whch is preferred over backticks now.

[FreakHavoc]

Thanks all! I tried the last suggestion and it worked perfectly

[mfkfx]

Hello,

I have a problem combining this with Pythons os.system:

os.system("convert -pointsize 20 -fill yellow -draw "text 270,460 '$(date)'" image_tmp.jpg image.jpg")

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  File "test.py", line 5
    os.system("convert -pointsize 20 -fill yellow -draw "text 270,460 '$(date)'" image_tmp.jpg image.jpg")
                                                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I think the reason is the amount of "" used in this line.

Can anyone help me with this?

Regards