[Nottingham] Downloading multiple images from a website

[Robert Hart]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Teh Gooroo wrote:

> Following this delightful discussion on all things globful..
> Im trying to get something together that cleanly copies manga in
> individual page scans with titles like "chaosic-v01c01-031.jpg" to my
> psp... which for some horrific reason uses fat12 and concatenates
> filenames to 8.3 names.
> The end result being i end up with a single file. 
> Not so much fun.
> 
> Also, following this more offtopic, anyone aware of decent batch image
> converters? im using xnview currently to convert png to jpg, but need
> to change res cleanly as well.
> (learning to code against the gimp does not count as a solution.. till
> i get more desperate!)

Yeah, use "convert" from ImageMagick

something like:

for i in *.png ; do convert $i -resize 640x480 $i `basename $i`.jpg ; done

Knowing this thread, you'll get 27 other different ways to do this.

Rob


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