Monthly Archives: August 2007

So I have been looking around at all the distros recently, and can not pick which one I would like next.  So I got to looking around, and remembered a project I had sort of looked at doing once long ago. I never got around to it, but decided this time I would.  So I will be working on setting up Linux From Scratch. It should be fun!  🙂

It is kind of cool. You start with a very base system they provide on CD, and format a drive, and start building your system on it using the base system as the tools to do it.  I am hoping I can build a decent system that will be fairly usable, and maybe I can even create a livecd that I can use to install it on my system in the future.  We will see how it goes.

I am really looking forward to this.  I have always thought something like this would really improve my knowledge of Linux.  Hopefully it will! We will see! Wish me luck.

mkdir pics80

Make a directory to put them in.

Change directory to where the images all are.

for i in $(ls *.jpg); do convert $i -resize 80 -quality 80 pics80/np-$i; done

Set the .jpg to whatever type of images you are resizing.

We are doing an ls of the  directory, assigning the files it sees of that type to the variable $i, we are then using the convert command that comes with ImageMagick to resize the pictures to 80 pixels height, and reducing the quality of the image to 80% to make it a better file size and more usable for the web. We then put it in the directory we made named pics80 and rename it np-(New Pics)and the filename associated with it in the variable $i.

I hope this helps someone out, I know I am always converting pics, and do not wanna forget how I did it after struggling to figure it out the first time.