This is a stupid question but I'll ask it anyway. I have a couple of
hundred
bmp files that I want to convert to Sun Raster format. I figure the best
thing
to do this is the convert utility (but I'm open to suggestions). I am
not a very
good shell programmer but as far as I can see the way to build the new
filename from the old would be using something like the line below:
echo $i | awk 'BEGIN {FS= "."; OFS="."}; {print $1,"jpg"}'
My first question is am I cracking a nut with a sledge-hammer here?
Secondly, if I try to use this in a foreach loop in tcsh it does it for
the first file
in the list and then terminates. Can anybody tell me why? I have a fair
idea
that its something to do with enclosing the awk replacing the shell
process
image with itself.
TIA,
John
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National University of Ireland,
Maynooth,
Co. Kildare,
Ireland.
Email : johnmcd at cs.may.ie
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