[Originally posted by cjsmall on 2009-12-16 00:58:22-08]
I haven't been paying close attention to all the posts on this list, so I
apologize if this has been discussed previously.
I have some scripts that call exiftool. In one script I was using the
flags "-qq" which worked fine. Recently I upgraded to a newer version
(7.99) and found that this no longer works, while "-q -q" does work. Was a
change made to the command line parser that no longer allows flags to be
ganged together?
Thanks.
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Jeffery Small
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-12-16 11:19:56-08]Hi Jeffery,
The meaning of -qq has never changed, and it is interpreted
as a request to extract the tag "qq". To quote the OPTIONS section
of the exiftool application documentation:
"Note that multiple single-character options may NOT be combined into
one argument ecause this would be interpreted as a tag name."
- Phil
[Originally posted by cjsmall on 2009-12-16 19:18:40-08]
Thanks Phil.
Sorry I missed that note in the documentation. I'm still confused as to why my scripts with "-qq" were working previously, but happily, I made the change and all is fine now.
Regards,
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Jeff