Hi,

How can I rename a jpeg file to the name of the folder it is in? I am using ImageMagick to create a montage for some folders of images, but I would like to rename the output montage file according to the folder it is in. I thought a bash script would be best for this, but if some switch in ImageMagic would work, that would even be better, but I doubt that is possible for this purpose.

Thank you in advance.
-Brian

You can do it with bash. Could you give an example of the names?

I couldn't make out what you are trying to do.

BTW, not sure if it helps but, on the same topic, a few years ago I wrote a script to batch edit a bunch of files with imagemagick.
http://willcode4beer.com/tips.jsp?set=photoscript
basically, from full-size, create med and thumbs dropping medium size in the 'med' folder and thumb size in the 'thumb' folder.

the folder names will have spaces in them if that helps

spaces are no big deal.
can you give an example of what you you want to change into what?

I am using ImageMagic in Linux to create montage images from a bunch of jpeg images, and what I would like to do is rename the 'montage' image (the actual montage created image) to the name of the folder that it is located in.

Example: A folder called flowers has 100 flower images in it. I create a montage image using the montage command in linux, and I specify a file for the montage such as montage.jpg...How can I change the filename 'montage.jpg' into the name of the folder called flowers automatically? That's why I thought of the bash script to do this.

ahh, ok, that is much more helpful. You just need to use the replace operators.

Let's say you have a variable "i"
just for example, > export i=redpill/foo.bar

> echo ${i%%/*}.png

will output redpill.png

is that a little closer to what you want?

Originally Posted by willcode4beer

ahh, ok, that is much more helpful. You just need to use the replace operators.

Let's say you have a variable "i"
just for example, > export i=redpill/foo.bar

> echo ${i%%/*}.png

will output redpill.png

is that a little closer to what you want?

Exactly!

Just a comment for anyone else reading.
the %%/* means delete everything from the last slash to the right.
if its changed to ##*/ then it deletes everything from the slash to the left.