As long as we're bashing, it could easily be written loopless like so: basename -s .jpg -a *jpg | xargs -I{} convert "{}.jpg" \ -resize "900x

As long as we're bashing, it could easily be written loopless like so: basename -s .jpg -a *jpg | xargs -I{} convert "{}.jpg" \ -resize "900x" -unsharp 2x0.5+0.5+0 -quality 98 "{}_s.jpg" EDIT: weird line breaking is to prevent sidescroll box