on github here, or just get this script:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jesssullivan/misc/master/etc/heic_png.sh

Well, following the current course of Apple’s corporate brilliance, iOS now defaults to .heic compression for photos.

Hmmm.

Without further delay, let’s convert these to png, here from the sanctuary of Bash in ♡Ubuntu Budgie♡.

Libheif is well documented here on Github BTW

#!/bin/bash

recursively convert .heic to png

by Jess Sullivan

permiss:

sudo chmod u+x heic_png.sh

installs heif-convert via ppa:

sudo ./heic_png.sh

run as $USER:

./heic_png.sh

command -v heif-convert >/dev/null || {

echo >&2 -e “heif-convert not intalled! \nattempting to add ppa…“;

if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then echo “sudo is required to install, aborting.” exit 1 fi

add-apt-repository ppa:strukturag/libheif apt-get install libheif-examples -y apt-get update -y

exit 0

}

default behavior:

for fi in *.heic; do

echo “converting file: $fi”

heif-convert $fi $fi.png

FWIW, convert to .jpg is faster if png is not required

heif-convert $fi $fi.jpg

done

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