How to sort input PNG files in ImageMagick

Question

I am making an animated GIF file using following command:

convert -delay 10 -loop 0 *.png animated.gif

But, the problem happens in the order of *.png.

My PNG files are like 1.png, 2.png, ... 100.png.

In the resulting animated GIF, the order of frames are like: 1.png, 10. png, 100.png, 2.png ...

I want that in the resultant GIF the snapshot are in order like 1,2,3 ... 100.

Answer 1

Please try sort:

$ ls | sort -V
1.png
2.png
10.png
100.png

So ultimately:

convert -delay 10 -loop 0 $(ls *.png | sort -V) animated.gif