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Title: Search for Tag / 1 file no output
Post by: mike1950r on January 26, 2022, 07:42:11 AM

Hi,

just a small thing:

exiftool -usercomment -@ D:\1.txt (1.txt includes 2 file names, none has a usercomment)
creates output: '2 files read'

The same comment with just 1 filename in 1.txt without usercomment
creates no output.

Strange though.

Thanks for assistance

cheers mike

Title: Re: Search for Tag / 1 file no output
Post by: Phil Harvey on January 26, 2022, 08:51:03 AM

This is by design. If you are just reading 1 file it doesn't output the summary statistics.

- Phil

Title: Re: Search for Tag / 1 file no output
Post by: mike1950r on February 05, 2022, 10:19:18 AM

Hi Phil,
thanks for your answer.

This makes parsing the result a bit complicater.

cheers mike

Title: Re: Search for Tag / 1 file no output
Post by: StarGeek on February 05, 2022, 11:24:08 AM

You can add -progress option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#progress-:-TITLE) and you will get some output.

Code Select

C:\>exiftool -caption-abstract  y:\!temp\Test3.jpg  -progress
======== y:/!temp/Test3.jpg [1/1]

C:\

Title: Re: Search for Tag / 1 file no output
Post by: mike1950r on February 05, 2022, 11:59:11 AM

Thanks StarGeek,

this is really helpful.

cheers mike

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