> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 17:58:04 +0100 > From: "Phil Betts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Well, I program on Unix for a living, and when you're used to > the sort of power that bash and the common Unix utilities provide, > trying to live with cmd and the half-baked MS "equivalents" of > Unix utilities just won't work.
You can have Unix utilities without Cygwin, that's what GnuWin32 is all about. > E.g. last night, I had 200+ photos in directory "original" that > needed to be resized, leaving the resized copies in directory > "smaller". > > In bash, I just did this: > > for i in original/*.jpg;do convert -resize 50% $i smaller/`basename $i`;done > > Try doing that in one line in cmd. No problem: for %F in (original\*.jpg) do convert -resize 50% %F smaller\%~nxF Sounds like the last time you looked at the half-baked MS equivalents was a long time ago. The latest (since W2K) versions of cmd are much smarter than their old namesakes.
