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I have a massive amount of images where each image is split into two files: X.jpg X.png, Y.jpg Y.png, Z.jpg Z.png, and so on. The jpg file contains the image information whereas the png file is the to-be-alpha mask. I want to overlay the two images to create one image with an alpha mask. The following command does the trick:

convert X.jpg X.png -alpha Off -compose Copy_Opacity -composite X.tga

Is there a convenient way to batch this without a for loop, which, given my total number of images, would take forever?

Thanks.

I'm not clear on the question. To get all image pairs processed, won't they have to be all looped over one way or another?

you will need to use a script or see some of the unix commands (or windows equivalent) for working with multiple images at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#mogrify_not since mogrify will only process one image at a time from a directory but not a pair of images (see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#mogrify)