The docs are wonderful, but I cannot wrap my head around one thing. I need to have the ratings of a list of photos I'm passing in a -@ xxx list, but what I get now is ten "0" for 30 jpg files. If I turn off the "binary" mode, then I see that only 10 of the 30 jpgs have ratings, but the list I receive is "0000000000" so I don't know which zero corresponds to which file. What command line parameter should I use to I get back 30 values please?
I'm using this currently...
-fast
-rating
-b
1xxx.jpg
2xxx.jpg
3xxx.jpg
...
-execute
I don't fully understand what you want as output, but if you use -T instead of -b you get the rating for each file on a single line, files that do not have a rating get a -. But perhaps you also want to include the filename on each line? Simple add -filename.
Also, is there a particular reason you specify each file individually (and in an arguments file)? Why not make use of e.g. *.jpg or (better) -ext JPG? Your command could then look like this: exiftool -fast -T -rating -filename -ext JPG . which will produce a nice tab delimited list of ratings and filenames for all JPG files in the current directory.
Hope this helps :)
I really don't think you should be using the -b option, but I am curious to know why you wanted it.
Hayo's suggestion is a good way to do this.
- Phil
To be honest; I assumed this was the most compact result format, before discovering the -csv option, which is exactly what I'm looking for. The reason I can't specify a folder with wildcard is because a photo collection in our software may have images from many different folders, so the command-file option is, as far as I can see, the best option for me at this point.
I see. But note that the -csv option isn't suitable for processing a large number of files (many thousands). If -T is suitable, it is more efficient.
- Phil
Well that's good to know. One last question in that case; -T only seems to generate the filename part, but I need the entire path for each file that I supply in the command file.
Quote from: mmondry on December 23, 2016, 03:50:39 PM
but I need the entire path for each file that I supply in the command file.
You can add -directory to you command, but you would still have to combine the path with the file. Otherwise, you could use the user-defined tag that Hayo Baan created here (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,5922.msg29137.html#msg29137).See next post.
Or you could use the FilePath tag, which is the full path of the file.
- Phil
D'oh, yet again. And it's been around for two years.
I missed it because it's only generated when asked for.
Yup, FilePath does the trick quite nicely, thanks!