On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:53:25 +0100
John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Todd Slater wrote:
>
> >>John Richard Smith saith:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>For reasons I need not go into, I transfer *.JPG files across from
> >>>Windblows to Mandrake and work on them in gimp,and
> >>>when I'm finished I have a montage of prints I wish to assemble
> >>>as a composite.
> >>>
> >>>I've hit a snag.
> >>>
> >>>Winblows names it's files in higher case.
> >>>Montage(the programme, part of image magic) seems only willing
> >>>to work with lowercase named files. There are too many to manually
> >>>retype.
> >>>
> >>>How can I convert windblows named *.JPG files to *.jpg named
> >>>files on the command line ?
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >John,
> >
> >montage will work with names with caps. If you are doing a directory,
> >just use *.JPG instead of *.jpg.
> >
> >Todd
> >
> >
> >
> Todd, You know what it was, it was too damned obvious.
> John
>
>
>
> But upon further consideration, and bearing in mind that
> I will often want to mix and match file images from differing
> sources it is best to convert all my source image files
> to the same file format for ease of processing because
> when it comes to it, the command line is going to get awfully
> complicated if I have to start allowing for more than one
> file format. So upon further consideration it is best
> while my current camera, epsilon1.3( a cheapie I can afford to
> drop and break if necessary) is not supported in linux, even
> as a mass storage device, and I must resort to copying across
> from W2K, to get things organised by converting everything
> there and then to a single(lowercase ) standard.
<snip>
Another option, if you're going to be using a script, is to use `find` and
say something like:
for image in `find [yourdirectory] -type f -iname '*.jpg'` # -iname means
case insensitive
do
echo $image >> list.$$ # the .$$ generates a unique temporary file id
for list
done
montage [all montage options here] `cat list.$$` outfile.jpg # use each
file in list.$$ as an argument
rm list.$$ # don't need the list anymore
Regards,
Todd
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