[magick-users] newbie needs help with convert script

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Fri, 1 May 2009 19:31:42 -0400
Vaskark <vaskark at gmail.com> wrote:

| Hi. I made a test script to convert all jpeg's in a single folder to a
| quality of 85, keeping the same filenames. It worked fine. This is the
| script:
| 
| #!/bin/sh
| 
| for img in `ls *.jpg`
| do
|    convert $img -quality 85 $img
| done
| 
| Now, my music folder is organized by artist, then album, then track title
| (i.e. Pink Floyd/The Wall/Hey You.mp3). Each folder in this nested structure
| also contains album art, named folder.jpg. What I need to do is convert each
| 'folder.jpg' to a quality of 85. I'm thinking the 'ls' command can't help me
| here. Does anyone have any advice to help with my goal?
| 
| Any help is appreciated.
| Thanks.

See IM Examples, Basics, Batch Processing Alternatives
   http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#mogrify_not

The 'find' program will list the filenames recursivally
'xargs' then can run a command on each file one at a time.



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