⚡ Add shell scrip to compress images

Author: bambooom

compress_images.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Bulk Image Compression Script
+# Requirements: imagemagick installed (IMv7 or later)
+
+# Set the source directory containing the images
+SOURCE_DIR="${1:-.}"  # Default to current directory if no argument is passed
+
+# Create the destination directory by appending '-compressed' to the source directory name
+DEST_DIR="${SOURCE_DIR%/}-compressed"  # Remove trailing slash from SOURCE_DIR, if any, before appending
+
+# Create the destination directory if it doesn't exist
+mkdir -p "$DEST_DIR"
+
+# Compression quality (adjust as needed)
+QUALITY=60
+
+echo "Starting compression in directory: $SOURCE_DIR"
+echo "Compressed images will be saved to: $DEST_DIR"
+echo "Compression quality set to: $QUALITY"
+
+# Process .jpg and .png images
+for img in "$SOURCE_DIR"/*.{jpg,jpeg,png}; do
+  # Skip if no matching files are found
+  [ -e "$img" ] || continue
+
+  # Get the filename without the directory
+  filename=$(basename "$img")
+  compressed_img="$DEST_DIR/$filename"
+
+  # Compress and save to the destination directory
+  magick "$img" -quality $QUALITY "$compressed_img"
+
+  # Compare file sizes
+  original_size=$(stat -f%z "$img")
+  compressed_size=$(stat -f%z "$compressed_img")
+  if (( compressed_size < original_size )); then
+    echo "Compressed: $filename (Reduced from $original_size bytes to $compressed_size bytes)"
+  else
+    echo "No significant compression achieved for: $filename"
+  fi
+done
+
+echo "Image compression completed!"