Running a command on all file occurences in a directory tree

Francis K Shim francis.shim-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sat Oct 9 18:33:22 UTC 2004


How about

find . -name *.jpg -exec convert {} -resize 425 {} \;

Regards,
Frank

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:53 -0400, 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.
> Thanks.

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