Convert entire directory to WebP Mac OSX

[James]

Hi,

I hope this isn't a really dumb questions, but I'm really struggling
here...

I would like to convert all .JPG in a directory to .WEBP on Mac OSX.
I'm using this command:

./cwebp ~/input/*jpg -o ~/output/*.webp

Unfortunately, all I'm getting is one converted file.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

James

[toby]

On Sep 9, 7:47 pm, James <jhtaylor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope this isn't a really dumb questions, but I'm really struggling
> here...
>
> I would like to convert all .JPG in a directory to .WEBP on Mac OSX.
> I'm using this command:
>
> ./cwebp ~/input/*jpg  -o ~/output/*.webp
>
> Unfortunately, all I'm getting is one converted file.

cwebp converts just one file at a time. What you want is:

for F in ~/input/*.jpg ; do cwebp $F -o ~/output/`basename ${F%.jpg}
`.webp ; done

(This assumes that filenames do not contain spaces.)

[daft...@gmail.com]

Could you please also show how to do this on Linux?

Thanks in advance!

[James Zern]

Hi,

On Monday, November 3, 2014 5:49:25 PM UTC+1, daft...@gmail.com wrote:

Could you please also show how to do this on Linux?

The shell for loop earlier in the thread will work under Linux or any shell interpreter. The dependency on basename could be removed, but it should generally be available.

For convenience:

for F in ~/input/*.jpg ; do cwebp $F -o ~/output/`basename ${F%.jpg}`.webp ; done 

 

Thanks in advance!