Get first image of animated gif

Image Magick's convert tool has a no-option, very simple way to access the first frame of an animated gif.

convert 'animated.gif[0]' animated.first.gif

The square brackets after the file name above can contain any index for any frame of the image. 0 is the index of the first image.

To discover how many frames an animated gif has you can use:

identify animated.gif

Which will return a line for every frame in the animated gif. Those lines will look like this:

animated.gif[32] GIF 736x521 756x594+4+70 8-bit sRGB 256c 421707B 0.000u 0:00.000

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