Hi,
capnhud@yahoo.com (2009-02-04 at 0902.16 -0800):

I have a large amout of .xcf that I would like to batch convert to .xcfgz is there an application that can do this?

Just run gzip *.xcf in a shell. Or look for a compression app that can gzip multiple files separatelly (not tar then gzip... no idea if any app does that alone, I just go with simpler g(un)zip for this).

As advice, save and use .xcf.gz instead of .xcfgz so you need no extra steps, gunzip *.xcf.gz will revert the compression, but with .xcfgz you will need some tricks to handle the renaming.

GSR

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:28:06PM +0100, GSR - FR wrote:

Hi,
capnhud@yahoo.com (2009-02-04 at 0902.16 -0800):

I have a large amout of .xcf that I would like to batch convert to .xcfgz is there an application that can do this?

Just run gzip *.xcf in a shell. Or look for a compression app that can gzip multiple files separatelly (not tar then gzip... no idea if any app does that alone, I just go with simpler g(un)zip for this).

As advice, save and use .xcf.gz instead of .xcfgz so you need no extra steps, gunzip *.xcf.gz will revert the compression, but with .xcfgz you will need some tricks to handle the renaming.

The trick isn't hard once you know it

gzip -S gz *.xcf

(the default suffix is .gz, so we are just removing the .) Jeff

Hi,
mcbeth@broggs.org (2009-02-04 at 1345.13 -0500):

On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 07:28:06PM +0100, GSR - FR wrote:

Hi,
capnhud@yahoo.com (2009-02-04 at 0902.16 -0800):

I have a large amout of .xcf that I would like to batch convert to .xcfgz is there an application that can do this?

Just run gzip *.xcf in a shell. Or look for a compression app that can gzip multiple files separatelly (not tar then gzip... no idea if any app does that alone, I just go with simpler g(un)zip for this).

As advice, save and use .xcf.gz instead of .xcfgz so you need no extra steps, gunzip *.xcf.gz will revert the compression, but with .xcfgz you will need some tricks to handle the renaming.

The trick isn't hard once you know it

gzip -S gz *.xcf

(the default suffix is .gz, so we are just removing the .)

Ahh, good trick to know indeed, that the dot has to be explicitly mentioned as part of the extension.

Well, using .gz (or .bz2 for bzip2 compression) still has more adventages, not only with gzip, but Gimp in general, as you can save .pnm.gz or many other formats that are natively uncompressed and it will load back, but the only supported "without dot" are .xcfgz and .xcfbz2.

GSR

Hi!
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, D.Jones (aka) Capnhud wrote:

GSR

Is this possible on windows xp? Becaues what you just said sounded like a foreign language that I have never heard :)

This is because of the depravity and poverty of Windows software culture.

:)

Seriously,

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm

should be usable in a very similar way to the instructions given.

David

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:06 PM, David Gowers wrote:

Hi!
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, D.Jones (aka) Capnhud wrote:

GSR

Is this possible on windows xp? Becaues what you just said sounded like a foreign language that I have never heard :)

This is because of the depravity and poverty of Windows software culture.

:)

Seriously,

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm

should be usable in a very similar way to the instructions given.

And doesn't Cygwin provide gzip also? Not to mention a better shell than stock XP ;)
http://www.cygwin.com/

Chris