Converting XCF and other files using command line with GIMP?

Question

If I have an XCF file (or any other supported by Gimp) how can I convert it to, for example, PNG for display or further processing?

Answer 1

If you want to bulk convert .xcf images to .png, you might find this wrapper script more useful:

#! /bin/bash -peux
exec xcf2png $1 -o ${1%.xcf}.png

Save it somewhere on your PATH as xcftopng (note the to instead of 2) and call it like so:

ls *.xcf|xargs -l xcftopng