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Download and unpack WebP tools (it includes the
cwebp
cli utility that requires to converting images to WebP) https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/precompiled -
Set PATH to bin folder where the archive was unpacked
export PATH=$PATH:~/libwebp-1.4.0-linux-x86-64/bin
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Execute in a folder with JPEG images
for x in ./*.jpg; do cwebp ${x} -o ${x/jpg/webp}; done