On 2018-06-01 10:34 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
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> | Using convert is okay, but you won't end up with the smallest JPEGs that
> | way.
>
> What do you recommend? (Lightning talk?)
oh I wish - the next couple of weeks I'm running more events than is
sensible.
anyway, of course I've
> On Jun 1, 2018, at 10:34, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
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> | From: Stewart Russell via talk
>
> | Using convert is okay, but you won't end up with the smallest JPEGs that
> | way.
>
> What do you recommend? (Lightning talk?)
I would recommend being aware of the “-quality” flag for
> On 2018-05-31 03:00 PM, Stewart Russell wrote:
> convert *.{png,jpg}
>
> does *something*, but neither what you'd expect nor want)
Multics had an "equal name" feature that conspired with the star-name
parser to do what you would expect. A program like convert could have
used it like
convert file.{png,jpg}is same as convert file.png file.jpgAnd,
convert *.{png,jpg}is same as convert *.png *.jpg
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk
wrote: On 2018-05-31 03:00 PM, Stewart Russell wrote:
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> convert
On 2018-05-31 03:00 PM, Stewart Russell wrote:
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> convert file.{png,jpg}
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> and bash will do the magic. What I don't know is if that will accept a
> glob.
narrator voice: it didn't accept a glob.
(that is,
convert *.{png,jpg}
does *something*, but neither what you'd expect nor
| From: Stewart Russell via talk
| Using convert is okay, but you won't end up with the smallest JPEGs that
| way.
What do you recommend? (Lightning talk?)
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That is what I needed. Thank you!
On 2018-05-31 04:47 PM, Seneca Cunningham via talk wrote:
On May 31, 2018, at 14:40, Stephen via talk wrote:
I want to build a script to convert any *.png files to *.jpg files using
convert.
Doing manually works fine.
Building a script has presented
> On May 31, 2018, at 14:40, Stephen via talk wrote:
>
> I want to build a script to convert any *.png files to *.jpg files using
> convert.
>
> Doing manually works fine.
>
> Building a script has presented problem. I am well versed in programming but
> a novice with bash.
>
> My loop
On Thu, May 31, 2018, 14:40 Stephen via talk, wrote:
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> #!/bin/bash
> cd /big1/memes/;
>
> shopt -s nullglob
> for f in "*.png"
> do
> echo $f
>
This is where you get the PNG echoes.
b=${f%.png}
> echo $b
> done
>
You can also do
convert file.{png,jpg}
and bash will do
I want to build a script to convert any *.png files to *.jpg files using
convert.
Doing manually works fine.
Building a script has presented problem. I am well versed in programming
but a novice with bash.
My loop through the files works fine.
#!/bin/bash
cd /big1/memes/;
shopt -s
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