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using exec in find, awk? xargs?
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Pat Farrell
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Joined: Aug 11, 2007
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I want to run the ImageMagick "convert" program on a bunch of files. The find command is the obvios way to find the files.
find . -name "*.tif" -print
works perfectly.
What I want to do is run the convert program, something like
convert foo.tif foo.png
So I want to get the name and add a new extension, .png
Any help or even hints will be greatly appreciated.
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Andrew Monkhouse
author and jackaroo
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Joined: Mar 28, 2003
Posts: 10816
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If you know that your files will all end in tiff, then you could just use sed:
(Untested, but it should work, unless you have spaces in your filenames, in which case that is a separate problem)
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Tim Holloway
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Joined: Jun 25, 2001
Posts: 14475
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If you're truly evilly-minded, use the "xargs" utility and do it as a one-liner. I'm not up to actually attempting this on the spot, but if would be something vaguely resembling this, I think:
The trickiest part is probably going to be the filename subsitution on the xargs command, but I believe that using double-quotes around the braces is the way it works.
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