Sorry I need some help starting!

[trybefore]

Running Win7-64 Home. Using Dos Window.
Exiftools in in Windows directory.
Changed to the directory containing several graphics files using cd: etc
Using Exiftool command from the documentation "exiftool -common dir" returns "File not found: dir". If I use "exiftool -common dir *.*" I get a file listing

The second command from the documentation "exiftool -T -createdate -aperture -shutterspeed -iso dir > out.txt" returns the same - file not found. When I change this to "exiftool -T -createdate -aperture -shutterspeed -iso dir *.* > out.txt" I see
"File not found: dir"
"Error: Unknown file type - out.txt"

I am not a dummy (I think) and can program in VBA but I am obviously not understanding something important here.  Can someone please give me a hand up as I have about 20k slides and negatives that I need to work on.

[Phil Harvey]

You are meant to replace "dir" in the command with the actual name of the directory containing the images.  For example:

exiftool -common "c:\images"

or, if you are already in the image directory:

exiftool -common .

("." is used for the current directory)

- Phil

[trybefore]

Thank you, I am good to go now. Great support.  Will make a contribution too.