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Title: Problems with the copy number (%%c) code
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:20 AM

[Originally posted by darryl on 2008-04-16 22:21:45-07]

Hi Phil:

I've got a Perl script that's making a call to the exiftool command-line because I'm too lazy to extract the info just to make a SetFileName call. Also, by calling exiftool externally, I can run in parallel! (Ew!)

Anyways, this command-line is failing for me:

Code:

$command = 'exiftool -q -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S-%%c.%%e "-filename<DateTimeOriginal" '."tmp/$file" ;

Note that the syntax is slightly different than what you have in your documentation:

Code:

exiftool -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%%-c.%%e "-filename<CreateDate" DIR

Is that hyphen in the right place? Shouldn't it be before the %%?

At any rate, I end up with a file named: 20080306_104855-%c.jpg

:-{

Title: Re: Problems with the copy number (%%c) code
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:20 AM

[Originally posted by darryl on 2008-04-16 22:27:07-07]

Doh -- I think it's because the version of exiftool my host has installed is old: 6.42

Bleh.

Title: Re: Problems with the copy number (%%c) code
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:20 AM

[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-04-17 11:10:38-07]

Yes. The '-' modifier was added to %c in version 6.63.

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