Motivation

While I was writing the post about a recent GitHub page build failure ten days ago, I prepared two screenshots of the email from GitHub.¹ I would like to resize them to 300px wide so that they wouldn’t be too wide for mobile devices.

Problem

There’re 2 image files in a folder: fail1.png and fail2.png. I wanted to create a scaled-down version of both pictures, and name the smaller ones as fail1_300.png and fail2_300.png.

Failed attempt

$ file *
fail1.png: PNG image data, 467 x 243, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
fail2.png: PNG image data, 464 x 242, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced
$ for i in {1..2}; do convert fail$i.png -resize 300 fail$i_300.png; done
$ ls
fail1.png  fail2.png  fail.png

Solution

Add a backslash \ between the end of the loop variable i and the underscore character _.

$ rm fail.png  # Clean up the mess
$ for i in {1..2}; do convert fail$i.png -resize 300 fail$i\_300.png; done
$ ls
fail1_300.png  fail1.png  fail2_300.png  fail2.png

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