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Title: Using > At the command-line
Use the `vips` command to execute libvips operations from the command-line.
For example:
```bash
$ vips rot k2.jpg x.jpg d90
```
Will rotate the image `k2.jpg` by 90 degrees anticlockwise and write the
result to the file `x.jpg`. If you don't give any arguments to an operation,
`vips` will give a short description, for example:
```bash
$ vips rot
rotate an image
usage:
rot in out angle
where:
in - Input image, input VipsImage
out - Output image, output VipsImage
angle - Angle to rotate image, input VipsAngle
default: d90
allowed: d0, d90, d180, d270
```
There's a straightforward relationship with the C API: compare this to the
API docs for [method@Image.rot].
## Listing all operations
You can list all classes with:
```bash
$ vips -l
...
VipsOperation (operation), operations
VipsSystem (system), run an external command
VipsArithmetic (arithmetic), arithmetic operations
VipsBinary (binary), binary operations
VipsAdd (add), add two images
... etc.
```
Each line shows the canonical name of the class (for example `VipsAdd`), the
class nickname (`add` in this case), and a short description. Some subclasses
of operation will show more: for example, subclasses of `VipsForeign`
will show some of the extra flags supported by the file load/save operations.
The API docs have a [handy table of all libvips operations](
function-list.html), if you want to find out how to do something, try
searching that.
## Optional arguments
Many operations take optional arguments. You can supply these as command-line
options. For example:
```bash
$ vips gamma
gamma an image
usage:
gamma in out [--option-name option-value ...]
where:
in - Input image, input VipsImage
out - Output image, output VipsImage
optional arguments:
exponent - Gamma factor, input gdouble
default: 0.416667
min: 1e-06, max: 1000
operation flags: sequential
```
[method@Image.gamma] applies a gamma factor to an image. By
default, it uses 2.4, the sRGB gamma factor, but you can specify any
gamma with the `exponent` option.
Use it from the command-line like this:
```bash
$ vips gamma k2.jpg x.jpg --exponent 0.42
```
This will read file `k2.jpg`, un-gamma it, and
write the result to file `x.jpg`.
## Array arguments
Some operations take arrays of values as arguments. For example,
[method@Image.affine] needs an array of four numbers for the
2x2 transform matrix. You pass arrays as space-separated lists:
```bash
$ vips affine k2.jpg x.jpg "2 0 0 1"
```
You may need the quotes to stop your shell breaking the argument at
the spaces. [func@Image.bandjoin] needs an array of input images to
join, run it like this:
```bash
$ vips bandjoin "k2.jpg k4.jpg" x.tif
```
## Implicit file format conversion
`vips` will automatically convert between image file
formats for you. Input images are detected by sniffing their first few
bytes; output formats are set from the filename suffix. You can see a
list of all the supported file formats with something like:
```bash
$ vips -l foreign
```
Then get a list of the options a format supports with:
```bash
$ vips jpegsave
```
You can pass options to the implicit load and save operations enclosed
in square brackets after the filename:
```bash
$ vips affine k2.jpg x.jpg[Q=90,strip] "2 0 0 1"
```
Will write `x.jpg` at quality level 90 and will
strip all metadata from the image.
## Chaining operations
Because each operation runs in a separate process, you can't use
libvips's chaining system to join operations together, you have to use
intermediate files. The command-line interface is therefore quite a bit
slower than Python or C.
The best alternative is to use libvips files for intermediates.
Something like:
```bash
$ vips invert input.jpg t1.v
$ vips affine t1.v output.jpg "2 0 0 1"
$ rm t1.v
```
## Other features
Finally, `vips` has a couple of useful extra options.
- Use `--vips-progress` to get `vips` to display a simple progress indicator.
- Use `--vips-leak` and `vips` will leak-test
on exit, and also display an estimate of peak memory use.
- Set `G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=VIPS` and GLib will display informational
and debug messages from libvips.
libvips comes with a couple of other useful programs. `vipsheader` is a
command which can print image header fields. `vipsedit` can change fields
in `.v` format images. `vipsthumbnail` can make image thumbnails quickly.
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