Re: [gentoo-user] Batch resizing of photos

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:25:39 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

> if you don't want to keep the original images, then it's simpler:
>
> for i in *.jpeg; do
>   convert -resize WxH ${i} ${i}.resized
>   mv ${i}.resized ${i}     # caution: overwrites original file
> done

If the convert command fails, the original file will still be overwritten
with a possibly empty output file. A safer option is:

for i in *.jpeg; do
  convert -resize WxH ${i} ${i}.resized && mv ${i}.resized ${i}     # caution: overwrites original file
done


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Neil Bothwick

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