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Title: Wildcards or batch processing - how to?
Post by: AnneA on April 06, 2010, 06:56:22 AM

First: Many thanks for all the effort you put into this wonderfully useful and flexible tool!

I need to copy tags between files based on the identity of their file name.

For example this works fine:

exiftool -TagsFromFile from/filename.JPG -IPTC:Caption-Abstract to/filename.JPG

Basically I want to batch batch process the last command, doing something like this:

exiftool -TagsFromFile from/*.JPG -IPTC:Caption-Abstract to/*.JPG

Unfortunately this doesn't work. How can I achieve the intended behaviour?

Anne

Title: Re: Wildcards or batch processing - how to?
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 06, 2010, 07:17:44 AM

Hi Anne,

You're welcome. :)

Try this:

exiftool -tagsfromfile from/%f.%e -iptc:caption-abstract -ext jpg to

- Phil

Title: Re: Wildcards or batch processing - how to?
Post by: AnneA on April 06, 2010, 07:30:07 AM

exiftool -tagsfromfile from/%f.%e -iptc:caption-abstract -ext jpg to

Wonderful – that works smoothly!

Thank you VERY much for your swift support!

(I just donated 10 bucks)

Title: Re: Wildcards or batch processing - how to?
Post by: Phil Harvey on April 06, 2010, 08:56:26 AM

Hi Anne,

Thanks for the donation, I didn't realize that was you.

- Phil

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