Convert .heic files to .jpg on linux (coming from an iOS11 device over USB)

convert.sh

# download release from github: https://github.com/monostream/tifig/releases and install at ~/tools/tifig
# then run these commands in the folder (just to keep things simple we normalize the file extension case before proceeding).

for f in *.HEIC; do mv "$f" "`echo $f | sed s/.HEIC/.heic/`"; done
for file in *.heic; do echo "~/tools/tifig -v -p $file ${file/%.heic/.jpg}"; done

Awesome. No dependancies, no PPA downloads. Just works fine.

Hey, I found this as I've been downloading my icloud photos library to my linux box, and found some HEIC files that don't open in much. I'm able to run the commands in a dir that has the HEIC files, but I don't see where the new files are put, if they're put anywhere. Please see below:

manderso@manderso-desktop:/media/manderso/BU3/icloud_photos/2018/02/04$ for file in *.heic; do echo "~/tools/tifig -v -p $file ${file/%.heic/.jpg}"; done
~/tools/tifig -v -p IMG_1769-original.heic IMG_1769-original.jpg
~/tools/tifig -v -p IMG_1770-original.heic IMG_1770-original.jpg
manderso@manderso-desktop:/media/manderso/BU3/icloud_photos/2018/02/04$ ls -al
total 6524
drwxrwxr-x 2 manderso manderso    4096 Jul 20 10:04 .
drwxrwxr-x 9 manderso manderso    4096 Jul 19 19:16 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 manderso manderso 3178578 Jul 19 19:16 IMG_1769-original.heic
-rw-rw-r-- 1 manderso manderso 3488462 Jul 19 19:16 IMG_1770-original.heic

What did I do wrong here?
Thanks
edit: NM, I didn't chmod the bin. Thanks again.

@manderso7 That shell line above does not execute tifig but only creates a list of commands you have to execute. You could pipe the lines to a script and execute it.

$> for file in *.heic; do echo "~/tools/tifig -v -p $file ${file/%.heic/.jpg}"; done > do.sh
$> . do.sh

works for me

Thanks for the script, but it has to be changed a little in case there are files with white spaces.

To execute the tifig command directly I changed the script.

#!/bin/sh

# download release from github: https://github.com/monostream/tifig/releases and install at ~/tools/tifig
# then run these commands in the folder (just to keep things simple we normalize the file extension case before proceed$

for file in *.heic 
do 
  echo $file | xargs /home/josi/Downloads/tifig-static-0.2.2/tifig -v -p $file ${file%.heic}.jpg 
done

\ls *heic | while read f; do unexif/tifig -i "$f" -o "unexif/${f%.heic}.jpg"; done

This is awesome, this tool saved my photo library.

Modified it a bit to execute the commands, operate recursively on a specified root directory, and skip any files that have already been converted. https://gist.github.com/mrmcwake/6d22eee12e8261e75743019c9219f4bc

Hooking it to a cron job to automatically convert any uploaded heics.

@Tigermatze In two lines

# download release from github: https://github.com/monostream/tifig/releases and install at ~/Downloads/tifig-static-0.2.2/tifig

for f in *.HEIC; do mv "$f" "`echo $f | sed s/.HEIC/.heic/`"; done
for file in *.heic; do echo $file | xargs ~/Downloads/tifig-static-0.2.2/tifig -v -p $file ${file%.heic}.jpg; done

for image in *.HEIC; do tifig -v -p $image basename \$image .HEIC.JPG; done

for f in *.HEIC; do convert "$f" "${f%.HEIC}.jpg"; touch "${f%.HEIC}.jpg" -r "$f"; done

Copy file modification times as well.

how to use this?
im a noob.