Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Second Edition

Web photo album generator

Web developers commonly design photo album pages for websites that consist of a number of image thumbnails on the page. When thumbnails are clicked, a large version of the picture will be displayed. However, to do this, many images are required. Afterwards, copying the <img> tags, resizing the image to create a thumbnail, placing them in the thumbs directory, and so on, is a real hurdle. As with any repetitive task, this can be automated easily by writing a simple bash script. By writing a script, we can create thumbnails, place them in exact directories, and generate the code fragment for <img> tags automatically in few seconds. This recipe will do exactly this.

Getting ready

We can perform this task with a for loop that ...