

Line continuation characters need not be entered. Sometimes, however, the lines are wrapped by your browser if the browser window is small enough, but the command-lines, shown in white, are still intended to be typed as one line. We use the Linux style on these web pages, as above.

In the Windows shell, use a carat character ( ^) for line-continuation. The backslash is the Linux line-continuation character. This example command is long enough that the command must be written across several lines, so we formatted it for clarity by inserting backslashes ( \). delete 0 +swap -compose Multiply -composite button.gif \( -clone 0 -shade 110x50 -normalize -channel BG -fx 0 +channel -alpha Off \) \ \( +clone -shade 110x90 -normalize -negate +clone -compose Plus -composite \) \ Or it can be complex with a plethora of options, as in the following: magick label.gif -alpha Set \ The ImageMagick command-line tools can be as simple as this: magick image.jpg image.png
