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ImageMagick: find files which can contain spaces (!!) and convert them with xargs instead of -exec -- with bash regexp of the target file
# Inspiration:
# http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=22974
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13043344/search-and-replace-in-bash-using-regular-expressions
# http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php
# stay in target dir
find . -type f -name "*.tif" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 bash -c 'convert "$0" "${0/.tif/}.jpg"'
# flatten to some other target dir
find . -type f -name "*.tif" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 bash -c 'convert "$0" jpg/"$(basename "$0" .tif).jpg"'
# with convert CMYK -> RGB (ICC profile here: http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/adobergb.html)
find . -type f -name "*.tif" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 bash -c 'echo "$0" "->" "$(basename "$0" .tif).jpg" && convert "$0" -profile "USWebUncoated.icc" -profile "AdobeRGB1998.icc" -quality 75
jpg/"$(basename "$0" .tif).jpg"'
# Windows: correct " - with batch.bat
find . -type f -name "*.tif" -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 bash -c 'echo imconvert \"$0\" -profile USWebUncoated.icc -profile AdobeRGB1998.icc -quality
75 \"jpg/$(basename "$0" .tif).jpg\"' > batch.bat
batch.bat
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