If you – like me – copy image files regularly to an external HD, you might also have come across the problem that sometimes the file references are created but the eventual copying of the file contents failed. Thus, I regularly end up with a lot of dead files that block the way for the […]
Category Archives: bash
Bash Script Batch Rename Image Files Employing Parameter Expansion
This one is a classic in the use of shell scripts: batch renaming (image) files. You can find solutions on how to batch rename files on stackoverflow (e.g., here and here).
Create Thumbnail Images from Flash Video FLVs Folder with Bash Script
I’ve had the problem that I wanted to show a list of Flash videos in a Flex application and I want to show a sample picture of each video. As I have got only the videos stored in a folder and have no jpegs of them, I want to generate those sample jpegs, one for […]