[ILUG] (Stupid :-( ) filename manipulation question

[John Allen]

John Mc Donald wrote:

> 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

Try
 for i in *.bmp; do convert $i `echo $i | sed 's/.bmp/.jpg/g'`; done

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