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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: qcobserver3 on August 04, 2014, 07:15:06 PM

Title: Issues with recursive
Post by: qcobserver3 on August 04, 2014, 07:15:06 PM
Disclaimer: Absolute newbie and borderline technical...

I have folder with multiple sub-folders. Am trying to get meta-data for all image files in all the folders into one csv file. Trying to use the following:

exiftool -csv -r -directory -imagesize -common *.* > out.csv

am having the following problems:
1. tools is not doing a recursive listing.
2. the directory tag just has a "." ( assuming this would be the case for the root folder )

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rob
Title: Re: Issues with recursive
Post by: ryerman on August 04, 2014, 09:04:35 PM
Read the documentation for -r (-recurse) and -ext (-extension) and -common (http://pages.citebite.com/a3v5v3s4r2efo)

Then use this as a template for your command:
exiftool -csv -r -ext jpg -ext png -directory -common "C:\Path\To\TargetFolder" > "C:\Path\To\Out.csv"

If -common doesn't give all you want, then add what you need to the command.

Double quotes are used in Windows.