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Why waste time with CPU/GPU consuming GUI apps on Linux to get your photos converted from Nikon RAW files to JPEG?

Here is how to do it:

1. Create a folder on your Linux box in a file system free enough to hold the data to be copied x2, that is if you have 4 GB for example, make sure it can take around 9 GB, for the time being
2. copy the NEF files into this folder
3. run the following shell script

for i in `ls *.NEF`
do
exiftool -b -JpgFromRaw $i > $i.JPG
rm -rf $i
done

Now you have your photos converted into JPEG format with the names DSC_xxx.NEF.JPG

if you want to rename it to be DSC_xxx.jpg, then I know one lame method to do so as follows:

1. Type: >process
2. Then Type:

for i in `ls *.JPG`
do
echo “mv $i $i” > process
done

3. Type: vi process
4. Now you are editing a file containing all File Names
5. Press Escape, then type the following:

:0,$s/NEF.JPG/jpg/g

6. then press Enter, and wait for it to finish
7. then press Esc
8. then type :wq
9. then enter
10. now type chmod +x process
11. then ./process

now your files are ready with the desired format