[lug] Image conversion.

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 05:36:32PM -0700, Archer Sully wrote:
>"Scott A. Herod" wrote:
>> Looks like ppmtogif wants a file name so try
>> 
>> foreach file ( *.bmp )
>> set outfile=`echo $file | sed 's/bmp/ppm/'`
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Ghastly.  
>
>set outfile="`basename $file .bmp`".gif

Obtuse.

outfile=${file%.bmp}.ppm

;-)

The ${} stuff like %, #, %%, and ## are pretty handy.

Sean
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