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Asked: 2017-05-22 02:48:23 +0800 CST

Imagemagick hanging and not working

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I have a folder full of name*.jpg files.

I found that Imagemagick convert is the right 'tool' to resize my images.

The command I'm using is

convert name*.jpg -resize 2000x1500 name*.jpg

Problem is, that it uses all my RAM (8 GB) so my PC hangs and after a while it starts doing something but the output files are not resized.

Does anyone know what the issue could be?
Size of all files is about 200 MB.

command-line

1 Answers

  1. Instead of: 

    convert name*.jpg -resize 2000x1500 new_name*.jpg

    The following worked for me: (loop on every jpg image in the given folder):

    for file in *.jpg
do 
    convert "$file" -resize 2000x1500 "new-$file"
done
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