Re: bmp to jpg conversion

[Tom Gilbert <tom@linuxbrit.co.uk>]

* aidanc (acoreilly@babbage.crisp.net) wrote:
> I'm not sure where to start, but I need to convert about 280 .bmp files
> to .jpg format. Is there a utility or script that would convert them all
> at once?
> TIA
> Aidan

apt-get install imagemagick

for file in *.bmp; do convert $file `echo $file | sed -e 's/\.bmp/\.jpg'`; done

Tom.
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