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Hi Everyone,

I am trying to use "convert" to create a movie from .bmp files. I have about 100 .bmp files which I would like to include. I use the following command:

Code:

convert *.bmp test.gif

The problem is that on the cluster I am using there doesn't seem to be enough memory to do this. I get a memory allocation error.
Computer support suggested using the following which I assume first converts each .bmp into a gif and then creates the movie from the gifs.

Code:

for f in *.bmp; convert "$f" "${f/bmp/gif}"; done
convert *.gif foo.gif

trouble is, there seems to be some king of syntax error in the above code which I can't spot.

-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `convert'

Can anyone help me out here-either on how to get the above code to work or any other way of bypassing a memory allocation error?

THanks

Code:

for f in *.bmp
do
        convert "$f" "${f/bmp/gif}"
done

convert *.gif foo.gif