Shell script help needed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 09:51:54PM -0400, Ted wrote:
> 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.

Why not 
ls *.tiff | xargs -i convert {} -colorspace Gray output_{}
then and avoid .tiff.tiff?

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