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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > > -- *ZoVirtuoso* Nonso Iwu Instagram: @zovirtuoso *Tell your friends to request a portrait!* _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
