These file provide simple examples and testing of aspects of the MagickWand API. Specifically + MagickAddImage() (also use by MagickReadImage() ) in various situations with a single images, or a list of images. Study of the examples details exactly what the API does. + GetScriptToken () doing low level testing of the tokenization (argument separation) the "magick" command applies when reading command options from a script, or pipeline. The Tokenization is designed specifically to emulate the BASH shell. In this way you would write scripts in exactly the same way you would write BASH shell command line arguments. Tests include quoting, mixed quoting, backslash escapes, line continuation, extremely long tokens, and various error conditions.