ExifTool Forum

[Originally posted by jimhudspeth on 2006-11-10 21:14:50-08]

how do you stop exiftool and add something to the command line and restart it?

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2006-11-10 22:06:16-08]

This is a rather odd question, and more of a
question about shell features rather than ExifTool
(the way I interpret it), but here goes:

With most terminals you can type CTRL-C
to stop the the current command from executing,
then up-arrow will recall the previous command
line, which you can modify then press RETURN
again to run the new command.

Is this what you meant?

[Originally posted by jimhudspeth on 2006-11-11 07:48:40-08]

I am trying to start exiftool from a batch file and would like to be able to tell it what file to read.

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2006-11-11 12:03:58-08]

I still don't think I understand the problem, and I don't know
what type of system you are using so I can't help with the
batch file commands, but all you have to do is execute a
new 'exiftool' command for each file you want to read.

[Originally posted by jimhudspeth on 2006-11-12 07:27:40-08]

Ok, I am trying to avoid all the typing when I want to look at 10 or 15 files out of 200. The system is a XP 3.0g Ghz, 3GB ram, 380 GB storage. I would like to type a batch file short name and have it ask for the filename. Then I enter the file name and it continues and makes a txt file with the same name. Thanks for the patience.

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2006-11-12 12:29:45-08]

Thanks for providing more details.  Unfortunately I'm not very
familiar with Windows batch files, but what you want to do can
be done without a batch file:

1) Create a text file containing the names of all the files you
want to process.  One filename per line.  Call this file, say,
"files.txt".

2) Run 'exiftool' with the following command


Then exiftool will create an output file for each filename in
"files.txt", with the same name but a ".txt" extension.

With technique, it may be possible for you to semi-automate the
generation of "files.txt" to save you even more typing.

- Phil