Hi all,
I am a newbie. Could someone support? If have a question. I am executing exiftool -if '$filename =~ /^IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}\.\w*/' '-alldates<filename' -overwrite_original -v -r -i '@eaDir' -ext JPG . -fast2.
This gives me an error on windows machine. I need to replace single qoutes by double. But which ones?
Quote from: swieber on December 08, 2022, 10:28:15 AMThis gives me an error on windows machine. I need to replace single qoutes by double. But which ones?
On Windows CMD, all of them.
exiftool -if "$filename=~/^IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}\.\w*/" "-alldates<filename" -overwrite_original -v -r -i "@eaDir" -ext JPG -fast2 .CMD uses double quotes to enclose any argument with a greater/less than symbol, a space, a dollar sign, or a caret. If there are quotes needed inside of an argument, such as when a helper function (https://exiftool.org//exiftool_pod.html#Helper-functions) is used, those would be single quotes.
Also, you probably don't need a lot of the options listed in that command. You probably(/should) could remove
-v and
-i "@eaDir"If you're using Windows PowerShell, then single quotes should be used, but be aware that PS parses commands differently than any other shell. Pay attention to the highlighting when you use it.
Hi @Stargeek,
Thanks for your support. It works fine except from some warning. Could you assist me a little further? Much appreciated. See the log below. What do i need to change (just applied your command). Looks like he takes the minutes out of the file name?
Olav
Warning: Minutes '73' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0073.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '74' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0074.jpg
Warning: No writable tags set from C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0074.jpg
Warning: Minutes '75' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0075.jpg
Warning: No writable tags set from C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0075.jpg
Warning: Minutes '76' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0076.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '77' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0077.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '78' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0078.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '79' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0079.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '80' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0080.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '81' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0081.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '82' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0082.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '83' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0083.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '84' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0084.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '85' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0085.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '86' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0086.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '87' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0087.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '88' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0088.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '89' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0089.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '90' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0090.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '91' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0091.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '92' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0092.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '93' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0093.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '94' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0094.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '95' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0095.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '96' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0096.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '97' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0097.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '98' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0098.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '99' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0099.jpg
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The problem is that the last 4 digits aren't the hours/minutes. Try this to set all times to 00:00
exiftool -if "$filename=~/^IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}\.\w*/" "-alldates<${filename;/(\d{8})/ and $_=$1} 00:00:00" -overwrite_original -v -r -i "@eaDir" -ext JPG -fast2 .
- Phil
Perfect. This works! Thanks!