Re: [Gimp-developer] Copying an .xcf file

[ZoVirtuoso <zovirtuoso gmail com>]

Thanks for the feedback, Liam!

That’s the general gist of what I ended up doing. The C program just runs a
batch script in the parent directory.

Thanks again for the insight,
-Nonso Iwu

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:02 PM Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 14:51 -0500, ZoVirtuoso via gimp-developer-list
> wrote:
> > Since I have to create multiple files for new portraits, I decided to
> > automate this process by adding a shell command to my machine using
> > C.
>
> It's much better top use a scripting language for something like this.
>
> > I
> > wait for an EOF character in order to indicate when to stop reading
> > from the file.
> There's no such thing as an EOF character in C; instead, getc() will
> return -1; note that this does not fit into an unsigned char, so getc
> returns an int.
>
> > Essentially, I am trying to copy a template .xcf file and rename it.
> On a Unix/Linux system, the shell command,
>   cp "$template" `basename "$template" .xcf`-2.xcf
> will rename $template. One line, no getc or EOF.
>
> Or you could write a GIMP plugin in Python.
>
> slave ankh
>
>
> --
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