Newbie Needs Command Line Help

Compositing
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Hey all,

I'm a pretty solid shake user, but have never ventured into the world of command line scripting. I'm trying to do a simple batch script to convert sgi files to jpg. I found some info online and this is what I tried:

shake -t 101-161 -fi render.###.sgi -fit 720 404 -fo render.###.jpg

However, I get the following errors:
Unknown option: t
Unknown option: fi
Unknown option: fit
Unknown option: fo
usage: /usr/net/binshake [options] [ -- passed options]
[-h | --help ] print this help message
[-ver X ] start with version X of Shake
[-listver ] list available versions of Shake
[-promptver ] prompt for Shake version to launch
[-v ] generate more output
[-flush ] clean up shake's temp dir stuff
[-recover ] start Shake with the latest autosave file
[-show X ] override automatic show include path

"passed options" are those that need to be send on to
Shake and not handled by the wrapper

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
FYI, I'm working with shake 4 on a linux box.
Thanks for your help.

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looks to me like you're not using the command line binary..
as i've never used the linux version i cant help you with that (i guess you have tried /usr/net/binshake ?)

but on a mac, this runs fine:

CODE
Macintosh:~ chris$ shake -v -t 1-50 -fi /Volumes/RAID/tests/testseq/test.#.sgi -fit 720 404 -fo /Volumes/RAID/tests/testseq/test.#.jpeg
info: rendering frame 1
info: frame 1 rendered in 0.05s
info: rendering frame 2
info: frame 2 rendered in 0.04s
...

note that one # means a 4 character number.. use @@@ for a three char sequence. also using -resize instead of -fit might be preferable depending what you need to do.

hope that helps a bit
++ chris