energylifenewjersey.blogg.se - Mass convert images for web mac

zprofile: export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/scripts" I added that folder to my PATH like so in my. The way I do it is in my home directory, I have a folder called scripts. There’s multiple ways to expose a bash script to your PATH so it can be run anywhere.

If the user typed y, then we used find to delete all the HEIC files.

Whatever the user types and then hits enter will be stored to a variable named remove.

We prompt the user if they also want to remove the HEIC files now that they’ve been converted.

We run the imagemagick command that converts HEIC to JPG.

From there we pipe to sed, because for reasons unknown to me, wc -l returns a number with several spaces in front of it, and the sed script just removes the whitespace. This is then piped to wc -l which will return a count of the number of lines, effectively getting a count of files that'll be converted.

We use find with a depth of 1 so that we don’t get do down subdirectories. I like to do this to just verify that the script is running in the right place.

We get a count of HEIC files in the directory it’s being run in and write that to count stdout.This is a great article on safe shell scripting that delves into that more deeply. First, we set some bash settings to give us saner behavior in regards to errors.