Re: help - executing a pipeline from find - exec

[Tony van der Hoff]

Mike Civil wrote:
> > I thought I could use find:
> > find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.jpg' -exec 'djpeg {} | \
> > cjpeg -qual 25 > small/{}' \;
>
> You need to play around with execing a shell with args (or simpler put
> your commands in a shell script and call that in exec with the filename
> as the argument), however in the the best Usenet tradition could I
> suggest using mogrify (part of ImageMagick) to alter the files in place,
> eg using your find :-
>
> find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.jpg' -exec mogrify -quality 25 {} +
>
> The + will cause find to run each mogrify with as many files as possible.

Ah, yes, that works. Well, I used 'convert' rather than 'mogrify' to
retain the originals.

Thanks for your help.
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