Shell script help needed

[Ted]

On 09/03/2011 09:36 PM, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Folks -
>
> I have a mass of files with names like crw_0858.tiff that I need to
> convert to black an white using the following command line.
>
> convert crw_0858.tiff -colorspace Gray output_0858.tiff
> convert crw_0859.tiff -colorspace Gray output_0859.tiff
>
> etc
>
> This is beyond my shell-scripting capabilities. Can anyone suggest a
> simple shell script that can do this?
>
> Error checking is not required since I'm the only one to run this thing,
> and I do it manually.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Peter
>
ls *.tiff | xargs -i convert {} -colorspace Gray output_{}.tiff

but your get tiff.tiff at end of each file, odd, but not illegal, 
doesn't seem like you care about
output name except that it has the numeric number still in it.

-tl
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