I've got a problem that when I run exiftool on Redhat 8.3 the perl starts and pauses until a key is pressed. Any idea how to work around this? The perl version is:
perl -V:version
version='5.26.3';
This happens even on the most recent version of EXIFTOOL. 12.22
On Redhat 7.1 this wasn't a problem. It was running Perl 5.16.3
The difference must be your exiftool command. If you run with no arguments, it will show the help text and pause between pages. If you run anything else (eg. "exiftool -ver") it shouldn't pause.
- Phil
Quote from: Phil Harvey on March 18, 2021, 03:09:37 PM
... If you run with no arguments, it will show the help text and pause between pages. ....
- Phil
Does that mean
exiftool | less won't work any more?
Or do the pauses allow you to go back like less?
The main difference I see is that if I run exiftool without any options it pauses waiting for a key, then I press a key and get the help. It didn't do that in Redhat 7.1, however your right if I have any options at all, no pause. So this is actually not an issue. It seems I was impatient and thought it was waiting when it was actually working. Thanks Phil. Sorry for the red herring.
ExifTool uses the "perldoc" utility to do the paging for the help documentation if there are no arguments. The "perldoc" utility must be different on Redhat 7.1.
- Phil
Quote from: Alan Clifford on March 18, 2021, 03:40:56 PM
Quote from: Phil Harvey on March 18, 2021, 03:09:37 PM
... If you run with no arguments, it will show the help text and pause between pages. ....
- Phil
Does that mean
exiftool | less
won't work any more?
Or do the pauses allow you to go back like less?
Oh dear, I should have checked first. Sorry.