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Actually, it is indeed accomplished very easily. The fact that it's so complicated in your script is a demonstration that you're coercing a square peg into a round hole. 

size=`/usr/bin/identify "$image"|/usr/bin/cut -d' ' -f 3`
/usr/bin/convert -geometry "$size" "$old_name" "$new_name"

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Re^4: thumbnails generator
by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 21, 2008 at 12:31 UTC

    Of course given a better shell you can do even more inline: 

    size=${=${$(identify "$image")}[3]}

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    (And people say Perl is executable line noise . . . :)

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