Scott’s Thoughts

ImageMagick Trick

Are your images taking up too much space on your server?  Don’t delete them, shrink them.  Here’s a little ImageMagick trick that worked perfectly for me.

for img in `ls | grep -E IMG_[0-9]+{4}\.jpg` ; do convert $img -resize 50% $img ; done

Disclaimer: If this borks your data, well, you should have tested first. And kept a backup.

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