Hi all,
I realise this might have been asked in a previous thread, but I cannot seem to find a solution (perhaps I'm searching for it incorrectly?). I'm basically trying to use Exiftool from within R, using a system() call, to copy images recursively from one part of my computer to another. In addition, I have to remove all metadata from every image. To achieve this I've used the following code:
exiftool -r -all= -o '/.../images' -ext jpg . '/.../copied_images'
Now the code works, but instead of scanning the "images" folder, exiftool scans from my working directory. How do I tell exiftool to only look into the "images" folder? I thought '/.../images' would achieve this, but I guess I was wrong.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Computer: Mac; OS: macOS Sierra
Cheers,
Ross
Quote from: RossTP on June 30, 2017, 12:51:50 AM
exiftool -r -all= -o '/.../images' -ext jpg . '/.../copied_images'
The dot indicates you want to process the current directory. It will also process
'/.../copied_images'. Those are the two directories you are asking exiftool to process. Files will be copied to the directory specified by the
-o option, in this case,
'/.../images' is where the copied files will end up.
So that's what the dot does! Thanks so much!!