[lug] simple script

[Ken Weinert]

* Taz (feenix at ticnet.com) [011009 03:18]:
> Hi all:
> Here an easy one.  I have a small script I use to convert files from
> .bmp to .jpg  It works just great except for one small thing.  The
> filenames starts out as:
> 
> whatever.bmp
> 
> then after conversion is
> 
> whatever.bmp.jpg
> 
> instead of  whatever.jpg
> 
> How do I make the filename simply "whatever.jpg"  Here is the script:
> 
> for i in *.bmp
>         do
>         echo "converting " $i " to .jpg format"
>         convert $i $i.jpg

	convert $i ${i%%.bmp}.jpg

> done

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