What does it mean when I get the error
do shell script "exiftool '-keywords=Men's Basketball, YU, Sports, ,' '/Volumes/Photo [Work]/OpenEdit/test/64008C-09.jpg'"
"Finder got an error: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
I'm using a shell script within applescript that uses exiftool to take the existing metadata of a file and modify it. It works on some of my files but with others I get this error message. I can't seem to figure out why? Is this a (exiftool) syntax error or what?
Thanks.
Pedro
It's the apostrophe in "Men's" that is causing the problem. The joys of quoting rules. The bourne shell does not allow single quotes to be escaped in a single-quoted argument, so you must use double quotes around it. To do this you will have to figure out a way to escape double quotes in your mac script.
- Phil
Thanks! I would have never figured this out...
Pedro
On a different note, it may be useful for you to read FAQ number 17 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q17) to see how to write list-type tags properly. :)
- Phil
Ah. From your thread in the Apple discussion list (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11651160) I see this is done in a Mac script with:
set keywordStr to quoted form of keywordStr
Neat. I should have known this.
- Phil