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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem using find and xargs Post 302191189 by quixote on Thursday 1st of May 2008 06:06:29 PM
Old 05-01-2008
Problem using find and xargs

I'm using Imagemagick to create thumbnails for a large directory tree. The only thing I can't see is how to get it to write the thumbnails to a "thumbs" subdirectory!

Either of these two commands from the Imagemagick site does most of the job:

Code:
find -name '*.jpg' | xargs -n1 sh -c 'convert $0 -format gif -thumbnail 160x160 thumbs/$0.gif

which gives me this error
Code:
`thumbs/./Moorpark/PCR-Workshop/03intro.jpg.gif': No such file or directory

or this one:
Code:
find * -name '*.jpg' -exec convert '{}' -format gif -thumbnail 160x160 thumbs/'{}'.gif \;

which gives me this error:
Code:
`thumbs/Moorpark/PCR-Workshop/03intro.jpg.gif': No such file or directory

Either way, that thumbs subdirectory is always assumed to be relative to the dir from which the command was executed rather than the subdir being processed. It'll process and rename files in the top level dir just fine.

How do I tell it to look for "thumbs" under the subdir it's processing? ?? I've studied the man pages, tried googling everything I could think of, tried variants I invented (that was the most hopeless of all!) and gotten nowhere.

I did manually make all those "thumbs" subdirectories. Ideally, I'd also like to be able to tell it to make that directory on the fly, but that's my next problem, unless someone has the answer. Smilie
 

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img-gif(n)																img-gif(n)

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NAME
img-gif - Img, Graphics Interchange Format (gif) SYNOPSIS
package require Tk package require img::gif ?1.4? image create photo ?name? ?options? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The package img::gif is a sub-package of Img. It can be loaded as a part of the complete Img support, via package require Img, or on its own, via package require img::gif. Like all packages of Img it does not provide new commands, but extends the existing Tk command image so that it supports files containing raster images in the Graphics Interchange Format (gif). More specifically img::gif extends Tk's photo image type. The name of the new format handler is gif. This handler provides new additional configuration options. See section GIF OPTIONS for more detailed explanations. All of the above means that in a call like image create photo ?name? ?options? [1] Image data in gif format (options -data and -file) is detected automatically. [2] The format name gif is recognized by the option -format. In addition the value for the option is treated as list and may contain any of the special options listed in section GIF OPTIONS. GIF OPTIONS
The handler provides two options, one for reading from a GIF image, the other influencing the writing of such. -index n This option is for reading from GIF files containing more than one image (animated GIF's, GIF movies. When specified it will read the n'th image in the data. The first image is at index 0 and will be read by default, i.e. when the option is not specified. -interlaced bool If the value of this option is set to true the image will be written using the interlaced sub-format of GIF. The default is to write non-interlaced files. This option is not implemented yet. IMAGE COMPRESSION
Instead of LZW the run-length encoding of Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation is used, also known as miGIF compression. The miGIF com- pression routines do not, strictly speaking, generate files conforming to the GIF spec, since the image data is not LZW-compressed (this is the point: in order to avoid transgression of the Unisys patent on the LZW algorithm.) However, miGIF generates data streams that any rea- sonably sane LZW decompresser will decompress to what we want. TRANSPARENCY
If you want to write images to disk which contain transparency information (e.g. GIF89) you need at least Tk 8.3. SEE ALSO
img-bmp, img-dted, img-gif, img-ico, img-intro, img-jpeg, img-pcx, img-pixmap, img-png, img-ppm, img-ps, img-raw, img-sgi, img-sun, img- tga, img-tiff, img-window, img-xbm, img-xpm KEYWORDS
gif, image handling, tk COPYRIGHT
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