Command Line Tools

pyimagediet also comes with a command line tool diet which you can use to compress files or generate configuration file tailored to your environment.

Generate configuration

To find existing compression tools and print correct commands and pipelines sections run:

diet –check

This will print out configuration to standard output which you can save as your configuration file (everything else needed should already be covered by pyimagediet’s default configuration).

Compress a files

You can compress files by running

diet –config <path_to_config_file> <file>

where path_to_config_file points to configuration file and file is the path of a file you want to compress.

Configuration file needs to have the same format as described in section Configuration and can be either the output of the above described check command or your customized version.