Topic: recreate on the command line prompt in Linux what album.pl does?

[ziphem]

This may be a bit off topic, but can anyone tell me how to recreate on the command line prompt in Linux what album.pl does (-scale and renaming images...)?  I don't think I'm Imagemagick 6.0 yet....

Ultimately I'd like to convert all images in a directory tacking on a _small to the filename, lik 112432.jpg converts to 112432__small.jpg, so now the directory has 112432.jpg and 112432__small.jpg

Thank you!!!

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hi ziphem,

You should be able to do something like this:

ls *.jpg *.JPG | xargs -i covert -scale 120x90 {} small_{}

Would create thumbnails for all existing JPEG files in the current directory to no more than 120x90 dimensions. The thumbnails would have a "small_" prefix in their filename. (Inserting __small in the middle of the filename would be harder...)

Hope that helps.


Cheers

[ziphem]

Great - just what I needed!!  Thanks!!!