SIPS


sips is a great little command line utility built into OS X....

For example, let's say you have a folder of tiffs and you want to convert them all to jpegs and put the converted jpegs into a folder named results inside the folder containing the tiffs:

Navigate to the folder containing the tiffs.

kieranbook:~/tmp/pw_woa kieran$ ls -al
total 1256
drwxr-xr-x 9 kieran staff 306 Sep 30 12:52 .
drwxrwx--x 35 kieran staff 1190 Sep 29 23:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 kieran staff 99420 Sep 30 08:37 CVSRepositoryInfo.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 kieran staff 140088 Sep 30 08:37 CVSSelectModule.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 kieran staff 138824 Sep 29 23:56 JavaBuildPath.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 kieran staff 106904 Sep 29 23:56 JavaBuildPath1.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 kieran staff 98118 Sep 30 08:37 JavaBuildPathProjectsTab.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 kieran staff 46096 Sep 30 08:36 SelectProjectsToAdd.tiff
drwxr-xr-x 2 kieran staff 68 Sep 30 12:52 results

Next run a sips command as follows:
kieranbook:~/tmp/pw_woa kieran$ sips -s format jpeg *.tiff --out results

... easy!

Posted: Mon - October 2, 2006 at 09:50 AM        

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