Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote:
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Why on earth would you want to put ls in backticks? I wonder who
originated this rather redundant and fragile (what happens when a
filename has any form of whitespace?) construct?
That would be me.
If you're dealing with so many files that the bash "glob buffer"
fills up, `ls *.bmp` can work around that.
And imho, much easier than dealing with xargs and find -exec whatnot ;
Also, if spaces are a problem, fancy quotes can deal with that:
for f in `ls *.bmp`; do echo "$f"; done <-- Note I have NOT tested this.
Try googling for
"useless use of cat awards" for another redundant construct that
people love to use.
for f in *.bmp ; do convert $f --to-jpeg ; done
But even better than the above is just:
mogrify -format jpg *.bmp
You can probably also (untested):
convert --to-jpeg *.bmp
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