When I run the following command to copy exif data from original raw image files to tif copies, exiftool not only creates TIF_original copies of the tif files before updating the exif data in them, but it also renames the source RAF (Fuji raw) files to RAF_original and then creates new RAF copies. Why does this happen? I would have thought that the RAF files are only being read, not written.
exiftool -tagsfromfile *.RAF -all:all *.TIF
Exiftool is version 9.41, running on Ubuntu 13.10.
You can't use wildcards in the -tagsFromFile argument. These wildcards are expanded by the shell into separate arguments, but the -tagsFromFile option only takes one argument. The rest are interpreted as names of files to process.
As well, I do not recommend using wildcards in the file name arguments (https://exiftool.org/mistakes.html#wild). So try this:
exiftool -tagsfromfile %d%f.RAF -all:all -ext tif .
- Phil