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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: GPFowler on February 26, 2019, 08:30:20 PM

Title: Newbie Question
Post by: GPFowler on February 26, 2019, 08:30:20 PM
First, thank you for such a powerful tool.

I must have missed this in the documentation... On the command line or in a windows batch file I begin the instruction with "exiftool "

I have looked high and low for the proper order of all that can follow the magic word but it's as if the tool will digest just about anything I feed it.

Are there rules of syntax? I've used examples from the site to do most of what I want to do but to blaze my own trail I need to know the rules of the road.

Thanks
Title: Re: Newbie Question
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 26, 2019, 09:16:21 PM
The order of most options does not matter, except for the order of operations when writing tags.  FAQ 22 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q22) deals with this.  There are a few other exceptions mentioned in the documentation.

- Phil