Hi there. Not sure if what I want to achieve can be done easier. Basically I have a folder called F1 where different image files are added from time to time. Sometimes it is a lot of files added, sometimes, just a few files. I need to trigger an even on files added event in this folder. When files are added, I need to read their CaptionAbstract tag and check them for certain keywords. If these keywords are present there, I sort them to different folders (according to these keywords). I do this the following way:
inotifywait -m /home/user/F1 -e create -e moved_to |
while read path action file; do
exiftool -if '$Caption-Abstract =~ /keyword1|keyword2|keyword3/$file -q -f -o /home/user/F11
exiftool -if '$Caption-Abstract =~ /keyword4|keyword5|keyword6/$file -q -f -o /home/user/F12
exiftool -if '$Caption-Abstract =~ /keyword7|keyword8|keyword9/$file -q -f -o /home/user/F13
done
done
But basically I read exif data of each file, multiple times, so it is very slow. Any way my idea can be improved? ALL help and suggestions will be highly appreciated!
Oh, and operation system is linux obviously
Yes. I assume you want to copy the files, so I add -o dummy to the command:
exiftool '-directory<${caption-abstract; <some perl code to derive the directory name from caption-abstract>}' -o dummy DIR
Look for "advanced formatting expression" in the exiftool application documentation for more information about this feature.
- Phil
Edit: Or of the perl code is too complex this may be easier to do with a user-defined Composite tag.