Shell script help needed

[Ted]

i assumed the converter would want a tiff added to the resultant name of 
the name input, there by specifying the conversion type,
but it may not be the case with "convert".

-tl

On 09/03/2011 11:17 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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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