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Hi,

I have a bunch of images the exact same size that I need to pair together with a 10px gap and a 5px border. They're all in the same folder and named appropriately: Left 0001.jpg, Right 0001.jpg, Left 0002.jpg, Right 0002.jpg, … etc.

After a lot of trial and error I've found that the 'montage' operation works perfectly as a single command, thus:

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montage -background black -geometry +5+5 "Left 0001.jpg" "Right 0001.jpg" "Frame 0001.jpg"

Now I don't want to have to go through re-running the command for every pairing, so I thought I'd try this:

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montage -background black -geometry +5+5 Left*.jpg Right*.jpg Frame*.jpg

But of course that just created a single huge image with all of the source images montaged.

So I guess I need to create a batch file (for Windows) and loop through with a wildcard, but I've never done any batch scripting before and I'm not sure where to even start with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Okay, after doing some research on looping through files and a bit of trial and error I've managed to come up with this:

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@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

for %%F in (Left*.jpg) do (
    set oldName=%%F
    set pairName=Right !oldName:~5!
    set newName=Frame !oldName:~5!
    echo Processing !newName!...
    magick montage -background black -geometry +5+5 "%%F" "!pairName!" "!newName!"
)

Hopefully someone will tell me if there's a simpler, safer, or more efficient way than this, but for now at least it's doing the job I wanted!

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