On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:33:03 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 00:37 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> May I suggest 'man bash'? > > You are cruel... ;-) Years ago I decided to have a look at that, but > my eyes began to hurt when I'd only scratched the surface of that huge > man file. "man bash" is aptly named. > > -- What can I say? Linux is very powerful (I'd like to see this done in windows). But it won't do it on its own for you, you have to dig a little bit. At any rate, take it easy. To get an idea of how to do a for loop, do this (in a shell, of course): for file in * do echo $file done It's self explanatory. Then for your task, you replace the echo command with the convert command. The xargs alternative that someone else suggested works well too.