If you dig through the commit history of Images.jl, at some point you'll find 
the commit that switched from using Cmd to the C api for interacting with 
ImageMagick. That should have quite a few examples.

--Tim

On Thursday, May 14, 2015 05:25:19 AM Yakir Gagnon wrote:
> Can someone please post a simple example of reading an image stream from
> imagemagick?
> 
> So something like this (though this doesn't work):
> 
> cmd = `convert img.png <do some imagemagick things that I wish I could do
> with Images.jl but are only possible with imagemagick> -compress none ppm:-`
> I = imread(readall(cmd),Images.PPMBinary)
> 
> I'm trying to avoid writing the image imagemagick created to disk and read
> it straight into julia. The readall(cmd) part works awesome, it spews all
> the image "bits" to the stdout. But I can't get imread to pick it up as an
> image.
> 
> Thanks in advance!

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