[Gimp-user] GIMP Scripting from the CLI

["Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978 gmail com>]

Hey All,

I have about 160-ish images I scanned in as .tif's (my scanner offers 
.bmp, .jpg, .png, and .tif for saving scanned images as) @ 300-dpi. I'd 
like to batch export them all to .xcf (for future working with) and .png 
(I know I could have chose png to start but I thought .tif would be the 
better choice as a first format). Is it possible to do this with a 
shell-script? I'm fairly certain I could concoct something to .tif -> 
.png using ImageMagick (I don't think it supports .xcf) but I'd like to 
use The GIMP for the whole process if possible, and I'd rather not do it 
by hand. As it is I'm going to have to figure out how to batch-rename 
(well, I know how I'm going to do it, a shell script, but how to write 
it is going to be the tough part for me) about 100 if the images to 
prepend a 0 to the file name (I started with a two-digit numbering 
system not realizing I had so many images and would like to keep all the 
names listing properly on FreeBSD).

Anyway, I'm just interested in knowing from you guys if such a shell 
export-to-xcf-and-png script is even possible (I really, really do not 
want to do this manually).
--
Yours in Christ,

Joseph A Nagy Jr
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