07-06-2003
The plot thickens
I had an idea to debug this , im breaking it right down to basics
When I execute this from a script in the same directory as the given .jpg file it WORKS
echo I am doing this from a script
convert ‐resize 120x120 apache.jpg apachetn.jpg
But when I put the filenames into variables
searchfile="apache.jpg"
tndir="apachetn.jpg"
echo I am a script that uses variables
echo $searchfile
echo $tndir
convert ‐resize 120x120 $searchfile $tndir
IT FAILS
convert: Unable to open file (‐resize) [No such file or directory].
convert: Unable to open file (120x120) [No such file or directory].
btw it makes no difference if the variables are quoted or not
So my logic tells me that the last two vars are getting lost completely and hence convert is taking -resize and 120x120 to be the filenames
???
very confused
Last edited by andyj; 07-06-2003 at 11:04 PM..
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