Re: [Gimp-developer] Copying an .xcf file

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

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