Re: automatically editing many .tec files

Hi Asaf,

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:45:13 -0700 (PDT)
אסף חיים פרייס <preiss.asaf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> I've many .tec files that been created after mistakly deleting photos on my
> android. I'm trying to edit them, by deleting the 6 first chrs. and the last
> one. Then, I'm changing the file from .tec to .jpg.
> I have 3000 files!!!
> Is there any way to make it automatically, like a script or cmd commands?

Yes, there is. You can use the following Bash+Perl command:

find . -name '*.tec' | (while read fn ; do
perl -n -0777 -e 'print substr($_,6,-1)' "$fn" > "${fn%%.tec}.jpg" ;
done)

Untested!

(This snippet of code can be freely reused under the MIT/X11 License / Public
Domain (CC0) )

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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