I don't think the error has anything to do with the program itself.

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

Any thoughts?

I found a Webapplication that does batch watermarking (upto 20 images) and it has lot of options to customize the watermark.

http://watermark-images.com

Prasad.

chomp gets rid of the "new line" character that is included when you hit the "Enter/Return" button after submitting data. In this case, the year. The "convert" command is a ImageMagick command (man imagemagick for details).

BTW, you can avoid being there to type "y" by doing: yes | thescript

The composite command should work fine if you just overwrite the file:
composite -gravity SouthEast $watermark "$i" "$i"
Then you can skip the rm command to clean up.

@ Kim - Interesting. I haven't gotten into perl yet, so I don't quite follow everything that's going on. I'm guessing that chomp is a perl specific command?

@ both - I guess what sets my script apart is the handling of multiple image file types. There's a lot going on in file -i * | grep image | awk -F':' '{ print $1 }' | while read IMAGE.
file -i * - lists the files and shows file MIME type.
grep image - filters the list for image files
awk -F':' '{ print $1 }' - cuts the file name from the list item (everything before the ":" )
while read IMAGE - takes the file name output from awk and stores it in $IMAGE

I tested on a directory with .gif, .jpg, .png, .tiff files. File names with spaces work.

I wrote a similar script that copies

http://duane-pwns.blogspot.com/2008/09/batch-watermarking-photos-in-bash.html

Yours is more concise, but mine was written for the specific purpose of creating a directory of smaller, watermarked images within the current directory. Let me know what you think!

http://kimbriggs.com/computers/computer-software/perl-image-manipulation.file