PGMTOPGM(1)

💖 NAME 💖

pgmtopgm — copies a PGM image, that's it, that's the whole job bestie 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pgmtopgm

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Okay so first things first: this little babe is part of Netpbm(1). 💅

pgmtopgm literally just copies a PGM image from Standard Input to Standard Output. No cap, that's the entire personality. 🌸

Now, you might be sitting there like "bestie… isn't that just cat with extra steps?" 😭 and honestly? Fair. But here's the tea: a PGM program can read a PBM image as if it were PGM. So pgmtopgm can read either a PBM or a PGM image and hand you back a PGM image as output. Iconic, frankly. ✨

And even that is of limited usefulness, because almost any program you'd feed the resulting PGM image into could also just take the original image directly. Like, it's giving middleman. 💀 But sometimes you really need a true PGM image, and when that day comes, this is your girl. 👑

Oh and heads up: when you know you have a PBM image and you want a PGM image, pbmtopgm is the more general way to do that conversion. Just so you know your options. 🌈

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• There are no command line options defined specifically for pgmtopgm, bestie. None. Zero. She's simple like that. 🎀
• But! She does recognize the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm. (See Common Options.) So you're not totally on your own. 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• ppmtoppm(1)
• pamtopam(1)
• pamtopnm(1)
• pbmtopgm(1)
• pbm(1)
• pgm(1)

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🌸 HISTORY 🌸

This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.9 (September 2002). A true OG fr fr. 👑

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📜 DOCUMENT SOURCE 📜

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. The master documentation is at:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pgmtopgm.html

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 netpbm documentation, dated September 2002 — stay slay, stay copied, bye bestie!! 🎀✨💖🦋