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Hmm.

sudo chmod u+x did not by itself change anything. I'll put a copy of the script into the working directory and see if that helps. I appreciate your guidance, Fred.

EDIT: I mv'ed similar to the working directory, now I get /Users/MyUserName/Sites/similar: line 153: convert: command not found ...

The output is as follows:
sh: /usr/local/bin/similar: Permission denied
when I, not www, chown the Similar script

Is this something doable with user groups? Can I make a group with {username} and www own the script somehow?

Also, similar is added to my path correctly. I did go back, based on ...

Hello, all,

Basic problem: I can run the Similar script just fine from the terminal as me or root, but local PHP scripts can't (running as user www). How can I enable the user www to run Similar and ImageMagick CLI commands using PHP scripts like:

$string_to_exec = "/usr/local/bin/similar ...

Perhaps another example might be an arbitrarily large collection of photos with people in them: portraits, walking down the sidewalk, sitting in an office, etc. All of these images tagged as "has person in frame" manually by a human. The user feeds an image into a comparison algorithm that looks for ...

Hi, Fred,
Thanks for your speedy reply; big fan of your collection of scripts. It is clear a lot of work and love has gone into them.

Consider the example image set below (sizes are huge, sorry!). All but the penultimate/second-to-last contain a human-created foot trail, and each photo has ...

Howdy all!
First post in the IM forum here. If I'm in the wrong subforum, please let me know. Everyone hates being the clueless new guy. :)

I'm a recreation ecologist with a software background and I'm seeking to augment some machine vision work in my research group, using ImageMagick. The big ...