Create animated gif from directory of jpeg images

dir2gif.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Takes a directory of jpg images and produces an animate.gif
# Requires imagemagick's convert tool (Try apt-get install imagemagick)
#
# Tomasz Malisiewicz ([email protected])

if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 DIRECTORY" >&2
  echo "This will produce animate.gif in the current directory"
  exit 1
fi

#Create a temporary directory for the gifs
GIFDIR=`mktemp -d`
echo "Producing gifs inside" ${GIFDIR}

for f in `find $1 -maxdepth 1 -name "*jpg"`; do
    echo "Image $f"
    convert $f ${GIFDIR}/`basename $f .jpg`.gif
done

echo "Making animate.gif"
convert -delay 20 -loop 0 ${GIFDIR}/*.gif animate.gif