ImageMagick: convert to keep same name for converted image

Question

I am converting .psd to .png files inside folder with one. How to keep same name of every file in folder with different extension ?

For example I enter in folder images and then from terminal I execute

$ convert *.psd *.png

but it gives names to .png just numbers not the same as appropriate .psd image.

Solution 1

Use the -set and formatting options.

convert *.psd -set filename:base "%[basename]" "%[filename:base].png"

See "Long Form Attribute Percent Escapes" and "Filename Percent Escapes" docs.

Update

The mogrify utility that ships with imagemagick can also be used.

mogrify -format png *.psd

Note: Be careful with mogrify as the docs state...

This tool is similiar to convert except that the original image file is overwritten (unless you change the file suffix with the -format option) with any changes you request.

Solution 2

Or, even simpler:

mogrify -format png *.psd

Solution 3

If you are on Linux, Unix or Mac OSX, you could use in a terminal window with Bash shell:

for i in *.psd; do
     convert $i ${i/.psd/.png}
done

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_{I deliberately do not advertise mogrify any more. It is too dangerous for every user who doesn't know it already, and who comes to this website to ask for help. mogrify is overwriting your original files in some cases (of course not when converting PSD->PNG)}

Solution 4

I like the top answer,

that being said, in later versions of ImageMagick, the command is

convert *.psd -set filename:basename "%[basename]" "%[filename:basename].png"

as also mentioned by @jan-glx and @jomel imperio

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Comments

[emcconville]

That's right, mogrify with -format will do the same thing.

[Jomel Imperio]

Just an update: base is now called basename. With that substitution, works as expected!

[jan-glx]

-> convert *.psd -set filename:base "%[basename]" "%[filename:base].png"

[Mark Setchell]

Note that at v7 of ImageMagick, that becomes magick mogrify -format png *.psd

[Eskel]

@MarkSetchell thanks, that works. Is there a way to place the output into a subfolder? Can't figure it out.

[Mark Setchell]

@Eskel Yes. mkdir OUTPUT; magick mogrify -path OUTPUT -format png *.psd

[Salem]

mogrify -format png *.psd works as the best, BTW you can add is as Action on Thunar file manger mogrify -format png %F