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Re: Shell Script Help

From	Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Shell Script Help
Date	2019-05-06 18:50 +0200
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On Mon, 6 May 2019 10:24:24 -0400
Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 06:57:00AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> > I want a script that allows commandline only applications that can't batch
> > process to batch process.  A speciifc example. I will use the app
> > enfuse, an exposure merging program, a poor man's HDR.
> > 
> > patrick@Debian9:~/Work$ enfuse --output ab01.jpg --compression=97 ab01/DSC*.jpg
> > patrick@Debian9:~/Work$ enfuse --output ab02.jpg --compression=97 ab02/DSC*.jpg
> > :
> > :
> > patrick@Debian9:~/Work$ enfuse --output ab26.jpg --compression=97 ab26/DSC*.jpg
> > 
> > I use shell history to repeat the command for each directory, changing the
> >  --output filename and target directory numbers as necessary. Each diretory already
> > holds the appropriate image files.  
> 
> for dir in ab*/; do
>     name=${dir%/}
>     enfuse --output "$name.jpg" --compression=97 "$dir"/*.jpg
> done
> 

Typed in as a single line with a semi-colon at end of enfuse command
and before done to keep it from locking up, generates error "enfuse:
failed to open "ab*//*.jpg: No such file or directory. But it's a
beginning. Time to pull out my 400 page Unix shell programming book.

Thanks.

B

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Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <patrick.bartek@gmail.com> - 2019-05-04 17:30 +0200
  Re: Shell Script Help john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-05-04 20:30 +0200
    Re: Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 16:10 +0200
  Re: Shell Script Help Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-05-04 22:40 +0200
    Re: Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <patrick.bartek@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 16:20 +0200
      Re: Shell Script Help Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-06 16:30 +0200
        Re: Shell Script Help john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-05-06 18:20 +0200
          Re: Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 19:00 +0200
        Re: Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 18:50 +0200
          Re: Shell Script Help Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-05-06 19:10 +0200
            [SOLVED] Re: Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 20:00 +0200
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: Shell Script Help David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-05-06 22:20 +0200
                Re: [SOLVED] Re: Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2019-05-07 03:30 +0200
            Re: Shell Script Help Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-06 20:10 +0200
  Re: Shell Script Help Will Mengarini <seldon@eskimo.com> - 2019-05-05 03:10 +0200
    Re: Shell Script Help Patrick Bartek <patrick.bartek@gmail.com> - 2019-05-06 16:20 +0200

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