Running a command on all file occurences in a directory tree

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:53:49PM -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.

Assuming concert allows you to reuse the same filename without any
problems (most programs do not) then somtehing like this should work:

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

Lennart Sorensen
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