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Title: Idea for a new syntax or option
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:23 AM
[Originally posted by mixx on 2008-08-10 12:28:29-07]

Phil,

I wanted to traverse my media directory and chart out how many different file name extensions do I have. Therefore I *would* have used something like this
Code:
exiftool -r -p "$directory\$filename" -w+ "MyDIR\%e.txt" MyDir

That would have given me one file for each distinct extension and in that file a list of all images with that extension. That would have been very useful.

For that I just invented (??) a new syntax for the option: "-w" namely "-w+" which does exactly the same thing as "-w", but it *appends* to the file named after the option.

This is probably very easy to program and would be useful, I think. What do yo think?

Cheers, Mixx
Title: Re: Idea for a new syntax or option
Post by: Archive on May 12, 2010, 08:54:24 AM
[Originally posted by exiftool on 2008-08-15 12:06:36-07]

-w+ (or something like it) is a good idea.
I will consider this for a future release.  Thanks
for the suggestion.  - Phil