[Eug-lug] batch convert

[Allen Brown]

mogrify is a cool command.  I've been using it for many years to
make thumbnails automagically.  But there is one thing that
annoys me.  There is no way to tell it to make the output filename
different from the input file.  So to make a thumbnail I have to
  cp ${fullsize}.jpg ${thumbnail}.jpg
  mogrify -options ${thumbnail}.jpg

Do you know of a more efficient way to do this?
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Allen Brown
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:49:34AM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
> > Both the gimp and imagemagick does batch converts.  I think the gimp has a gui
> > tool to do it, but I don't recall right now.  It has a command line way.
> > Imagemagick is all command line.  Both are Free.
> 
> Specifically, you'll want ImageMagick's 'mogrify' program with the
> -format option.
> 
> For example, to convert TIFF files in the current directory to JPEG:
> 
> $ mogrify -format jpeg *.tiff
> 
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