How to find all images with a certain pixel size using command line?

I am trying to find all JPG images within a folder with subfolders that have either width or height below 300px.

This way I want to detect old thumbnails and delete them.

For sure I can find all images using find:

find . -iname "*.jpg" -type f | ...

But what follows after the pipe? Which package can I use to detect picture attributes?

Solution 1:

You can use identify from imagemagick, and you can use the following command:

find . -iname "*.jpg" -type f -exec identify -format '%w %h %i' '{}' \; | awk '$1<300 || $2<300'

the use of -exec <command> '{}' \; makes sure that your filename can have spaces in them, alternatively you can use

find . -iname "*.jpg" -type f | xargs -I{} identify -format '%w %h %i' {} | awk '$1<300 || $2<300'

where the -I{} takes care of the same thing.

What I like about identify is that you can specify the output format; in this case '%w %h %i' which gives the width, height and full pathname of the image. Then the awk expression only keeps those lines for which the image is smaller than the desired size.

Example of the output:

64 64 ./thumbsup.jpg
100 150 ./photomin.jpg

Edit: If you want the filenames only (for piping to rm for instance), simply change $line in the awk statement to $3, then it will only print the third column.

Solution 2:

This worked for me:

find . -iname "*.png" -type f -exec identify -format '%i %wx%h\n' '{}' \; | grep '75x75'

This is the output sample:

./2520161636481000.png 75x75
./2620160819191100.png 75x75
./2420181545550700.png 75x75

Solution 3:

I think the accepted answer is very good, but I wanted to add another possible solution ...

Although I use ImageMagick tools most often now myself, netpbm is an old friend for processing images. You can see the size of any format of image with the command:

anytopnm file | pamfile

This will generate output that looks like:

stdin:  PPM raw, 1650 by 1275  maxval 255

To answer the question of "what follows after the pipe?", I use while read more often than I use xargs because it is more flexible. My netpbm answer to the question looks like this:

find -iname \*.jpg | while read img; do \
  anytopnm "$img" | pamfile | \
    perl -ane 'exit 1 if $F[3]<300 || $F[5]<300' || rm -v "$img"; \
done