convert a bunch of bmp files to jpeg on linux

Question

Someone sent me a bunch of bmp files and I need them in jpeg. I could convert them one by one using gimp, but I'd rather do it all in one go. I have Ubuntu.

Answer 1

You can use ImageMagick's mogrify tool

mogrify -format jpg *.bmp

Answer 2

You are likely to have ImageMagick installed on Ubuntu.
That can do,

convert filename.bmp filename.jpg

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update:

The mogrify (answered by hyperslug and referred by cjm) is also a good option.

Use the mogrify program to resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.
This tool is similiar to convert except that the original image file is overwritten
(unless you change the file suffix with the -format option) with any changes you request.

Answer 3

You can achieve that with the help of ImageMagick. In this link are Examples

Answer 4

for i in `ls *.bmp`; do convert $i $i.jpg; done

Yes, this will make a bunch of files called filename.bmp.jpg but it'll do the job.