Hello there,
I would like to run a Windows-CMD-file containing an exiftool command from a directory which has no files, but several subdirectories. I used the *.jpg -r command in order to carry out the command for every jpg-file in every subdirectory. But since there is no jpg-file in the current directory (where the cmd starts) the command will stop immediately. Putting the current/parent directory in the command will not work, since I would like to use the cmd in different directories by just coping it and starting there.
Hi Martin,
Try this:
exiftool -ext JPG -r DIR
where DIR is "." for the current directory, or the path to any other directory.
- Phil
Thank you, that worked perfectly!
To create a drag/drop bat file, you could use
exiftool -ext JPG -r %*
Relevant links as to why you can't use *.jpg and recurse
Common Mistake #2 (https://exiftool.org/mistakes.html#M2)
-r (-recurse) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#r-.--recurse)