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gifsicle: Make a GIF animation from selected GIFs.
$ gifsicle ${*-gif} --delay=${10} --loop > ${path-to-output-gif}
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This command uses the software "gifsicle" to create an animated GIF file from a set of input GIF files.

Let's break down the command:

${*-gif}: This part represents the input file(s) for the command. The dollar sign followed by an asterisk (*) is a wildcard that matches any character sequence. The -gif at the end indicates that the input files should have a ".gif" file extension.

gifsicle: This is the command to execute the gifsicle program.

--delay=${10}: This option sets the delay between frames in the output GIF. The ${10} represents a variable named "10" which contains the desired delay value.

--loop: Indicates that the resulting GIF should loop continuously.

>: This is the output redirection symbol, which sends the output of the command to a file instead of displaying it in the terminal.

${path-to-output-gif}: This part represents the path and filename where the resulting animated GIF file should be saved. The dollar sign followed by a curly brace ${} denotes a variable, and "path-to-output-gif" is the variable name in this case. You would need to replace ${path-to-output-gif} with the desired path and filename.

So, when you run this command, gifsicle will take all the input GIF files matching the wildcard pattern ${*-gif}, apply the specified delay and loop settings, and save the resulting animated GIF file to the specified output path and filename.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.
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