> unfortunately that simple approach is harder to do with my renaming > scheme. So I would probably write a helper script that did the > options to convert and renamed the file and so forth.
> for k in *.JPG; do > base=$(basename $k .JPG) > test -f $base.1024.jpg && continue # skip if already done > echo $k; > done | xargs -L1 -P4 echo my-convert-helper > And my-convert-helper could take the argument and apply the options in > the order needed and so forth. If you want to use the renaming form of the command (which I also tend to prefer), then I think that using a Makefile makes a lot of sense (and GNU make's -j argument lets you specify parallel behavior). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jwvlj2tz6bg.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.u...@gnu.org