Concatenating images in ImageMagick

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UPDATE: I’ve since been told an even better way.

I script as much as possible for Rubenerd, including image processing. This is how I’ve been concatenating images side by side for the longest time:

$ montage -border 0             \
	-geometry x$_ORIGINALHEIGHT \
	-tile 2x                    \
	$_IMAGE1 $_IMAGE2           \
	out.ext

But there’s an easier way!

$ montage -mode concatenate $_IMAGE1 $_IMG2 $_OUT

I don’t have an install to try in GraphicsMagick, but my hunch is its ImageMagick-specific.

More code or lines in your scripts are rewarding, but not half as much as being able to take lines out.

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