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@nbamaral vade retro satanas windows shell (or bash4windows)
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@DeltaEvo
Ahahah, I meant cmd.exe. It's flawed in so many ways, but it can iterate through a list of files and do name substitution :) -
@nbamaral or cygwin
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@agentQ
Yes, but I usually rely on just vanilla cmd, because most of the batch files are meant to run in a few hundred machines. -
@freeme just look up bash/perl scripting I guess
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@freeme convert come from imagemagick https://imagemagick.org/script/... it's the swiss army knife of image convertions
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@maqdude It wasn't my computer so I couldn't install it (and even if it was my computer I wouldn't install it) because linux ftw
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@DeltaEvo i understand that, but they were mentioning cygwin and shell/powershell.. i was wondering whether or not it would be possible with ubuntu shell on windows.. I assume it will be possible.
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@maqdude Yes I think, i only used imagemagick so .... It can be even done with windows shell
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@Mayhem93
When the last xp is replaced :( -
@Mayhem93 you know do it in Linux and blame windows let them feel cool
Another dev on my team just got a new machine. Before he came in today I made two separate USB installers and ...
My dad came with a windows laptop and asked me to convert a lot of jpg files to pdf on a usb stick (wtf?) he showed to me a tool on the laptop that convert files one by one ... and there is 58 jpg file.
Soooo I unpluged the usb key and pluged it into my linux laptop and ...
for f in *.JPG; do convert "$f" "pdf/$(basename "$f" .JPG).pdf"; done
My dad could not believe I had finished in 5 minutes
Linux Powaaaa !
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