Blur image 50% when drop into a folder

Question

I have a bash script, connect to folder action in Automator. When I drop an image into ~/Desktop/Blur folder, it should generate the blur version into that directory.

I've tried

#!/bin/bash

# Change to the desktop directory
cd ~/Desktop/Blur

# Get the input filename
input_file="$1"

# Get the directory and base name of the input file
input_dir=$(dirname "$input_file")
input_base=$(basename "$input_file")

# Set the output filename
output_file="${input_dir}/blurred_${input_base}"

# Blur the image and save the result
convert "$input_file" -blur 0x8 "$output_file"

# Show an alert when done
osascript -e 'display notification "Image successfully blurred" with title "Blurring Complete"'

I've ran

it 10 times now and I saw nothing generate, but I kept seeing the alert success.

Steps

This is how I set it up

Can someone pls help ?

Does your input_file contains path relative to ~/Desktop/Blur? — user14967413
– user14967413, Commented May 4, 2023 at 14:59

Mark Setchell · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-04 15:03:07Z

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You probably need to set your PATH at the top of the script so that bash can find convert.

If convert works in your Terminal, go to Terminal and run:

type convert
/opt/homebrew/bin/convert

Then you will get its full path, and you can use that in your script, either explicitly on every invocation with something like:

/opt/homebrew/bin/convert  "$input_file" -blur 0x8 "$output_file"

or by setting the PATH at the top:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/homebrew/bin

which will allow you to just use:

convert  "$input_file" -blur 0x8 "$output_file"

answered May 4, 2023 at 15:03

Mark Setchell

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