Mass Resize Images (.Jpg/.Png/Etc) in Folder

  • Thu, Mar 21, 2019
  • One-minute read

Requirements

  • imagemagick package installed

Generally, the command for a single file is:

convert [input_image.jpg] -resize [percentage]% [output_image.jpg]

Now, to batch-resize a folder with images we can write a small shell script that converts each image in the folder.

We want the resized images in a subfolder called resized.

#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -d resized ]; then
   mkdir resized
fi

for f in `find . -name "*.JPG"`
do
    convert $f -resize 50% resized/$f
done

In the example above, we find all files with .JPG extension and pass them to the convert command.

Also, see the -resize 50% part. You might want to adjust 50 to your needs.

Drop that script into the folder, e.g. ~/images/convert_script.sh and:

cd ~/images/
chmod u+x convert_script.sh
./convert_script.sh
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