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Title: -csvDelim STR --> TAB
Post by: audiogalaxy on December 02, 2020, 02:27:41 AM

Hallo, I don't know how to set "TAB" as a delimiter using the new (great!) feature "[-csvDelim <STR>]"

(OS : Windows / batch )

Title: Re: -csvDelim STR --> TAB
Post by: Phil Harvey on December 02, 2020, 07:40:31 AM

Yes, tabs on the command line are tricky. I found this (https://superuser.com/questions/240435/how-do-i-echo-a-tab-char-on-a-command-prompt/634826) with a quick Google.

If this doesn't help, then you can make an argfile containing two lines:

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-csvdelim
<tab>

and use the exiftool -@ option to read arguments from this file.

But maybe it would be better if ExifTool allowed C-style escapes in the -csvdelim argument. I'll think about this.

- Phil

Title: Re: -csvDelim STR --> TAB
Post by: Phil Harvey on December 04, 2020, 12:30:29 PM

Version 12.12 enhances the -csvDelim option to allow a tab to be specified with \t.

- Phil

Title: Re: -csvDelim STR --> TAB
Post by: audiogalaxy on December 06, 2020, 03:10:53 PM

Quote from: Phil Harvey on December 04, 2020, 12:30:29 PM
Version 12.12 enhances the -csvDelim option to allow a tab to be specified with \t.

- Phil

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