[CentOS] SERIOUSLY OT STREAM EDITING IMAGES

[Max Hetrick]

Chris Geldenhuis wrote:

> I have been Googling my head off but cannot find a method to stream edit 
> all the images in a directory and to resize them. I have a large number 
> of images of up to 3GB in size that I want to put in albums on a 
> website, but before I do this I need to resize them to a more realistic 
> configuration.
> 
> I know how to do this manually with the GIMP but it becomes tedious for 
> more than a few images.



Install ImageMagick and use convert. Something like this will get you 
started.

# cd /path/to/pics; mkdir resized
# for i in *.jpg; do convert -resize 50% $i resized/$i; done

Regards,
Max