Running a command on all file occurences in a directory tree

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, William O'Higgins wrote:

> What I want to do is resize all of the JPGs in a long and ramified
> directory tree.  I figured something like:
>
> find . -name *.jpg
>
> in the top of the tree would do the trick for hitting all of the jpgs,
> but I don't know how to take the output of the above and have it do
> this:
>
> convert $FILENAME -resize 425 $FILENAME
>
> Basically, I don't know bash very well and need help with the syntax.

      So long as there are no filenames containing newlines:

find . -type f -name "*,jpg" |
  while IFS= read -r FILENAME
  do
     convert "$FILENAME" -resize 425 "$FILENAME"
  done

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