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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: Mauricio Villablanca on August 07, 2010, 11:11:21 AM

Title: Suggestion for new functionality (parameters text file)
Post by: Mauricio Villablanca on August 07, 2010, 11:11:21 AM
First of all, great job Phil, thank you very much for sharing this awesome tool for reading image metadata.

I'd like to make a suggestion. I've been using ExifTool to read folders that contain a lot of images using if statements in order to limit processing. For this I'm using batch files which have a size limit of 8192 characters so when the entire command with a lot of parameters gets too long I had to forget about the conditions. A way around could be by having ExifTool read the parameters from a text file. This would allow for the use of bacth files with an unlimited number of parameters.

Do you have any plans to implement something like this?
Title: Re: Suggestion for new functionality (parameters text file)
Post by: Phil Harvey on August 07, 2010, 05:15:04 PM
Great idea!  ;)

This is already implemented with the -@ option.  :)

- Phil