Question

I want to be able to specify the location in both where to scan and where the converted file will go.

It’s just there is a lot of conversions and I’ve got a script which should sort it for me.
Currently I’ve tried

convert -resize 300x300 >  /media/usbdisk1/development/ephoto/richard/images/gallery/2007/29/normal/*.jpg /media/usbdisk1/development/ephoto/richard/images/gallery/2007/29/tn_med/$1.jpg

and

for i in $( ls /media/usbdisk1/development/ephoto/richard/images/gallery/2007/29/normal); do  /usr/convert resize 360x360 > /media/usbdisk1/development/ephoto/richard/images/gallery/2007/29/normal/$i  /media/usbdisk1/development/ephoto/richard/images/gallery/2007/29/tn_med/$i done;

Answer 1

There’s no reason to repeat your long directory three times. Use a variable for the base. And don’t use ls:

base="/media/usbdisk1/development/ephoto/richard/images/gallery/2007/29"
for file in "$base/normal/*"
do
    convert -resize 360x360 "$file" "$base/tn_med/$(basename $file)"
done

Instead of basename you could do it this way:

    convert -resize 360x360 "$file" "$base/tn_med/${file##*/}"