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Subject: Re: Programs to convert *.xbm to *.gif for RHEL 6.5?
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From: floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L. Davidson)
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Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>At Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm on RHEL 6.5
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a program that will convert a directory full of *.xbm files to *.gif files?
>>
>> Thank you
>
>Assumes you have done 'sudo yum install ImageMagick' first.
>
>#!/bin/bash
>for xbm in *.xbm ; do
>   gif=`basename $xbm`.gif
>   convert $xbm $gif
>done

Do you really want to rename foobar.xbm to foobar.xbm.gif,
or should it be to foobar.gif?

The command "basename $xbm" in that context is a no op.
This will do what you want:

  gif="$(basename $xbm xbm)gif"

But, really, this is much better:

  gif="${xbm%%xbm}gif"

Hence, with an eye to defensive programming:

#!/bin/bash
for x in *.xbm ; do
   convert "${x}" "${x%%xbm}gif"
done


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