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Though this is a bit unrelated to this thread (though very tied to how I'm using it), do you know of a way to do a batch convert of files in imagemagick? I don't mean in a for loop or using something like gnu parallel, but I mean internal to imagemagick.
If you're going to run a particular command ...

Great thanks so much for the info!

Thank you very much for the caution!

Though this is a bit unrelated to this thread (though very tied to how I'm using it), do you know of a way to do a batch convert of files in imagemagick? I don't mean in a for loop or using something like gnu parallel, but I mean internal to imagemagick. I'm ...

Thank you very much for all the help! Sorry about the versions, here it is:

$ convert --version
Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2012 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP


I'm running this on ubuntu and imagemagick was ...

Hello,

I'm trying to convert a lot (millions) of tiff files to jpegs without increasing the filesize too much. Here is an example conversion:

$ convert img.tif img.jpeg
$ du -b img*
214377 img.jpeg
9655 img.tif


So I'm seeing more than a 20x increase in filesize. Ideally I'd keep the filesize ...