(Probably) file name problems

[calberga]

I am constructing argument files to set tags in .jpg files.  My command line entry is:

exiftool -@ "D:/From-Netbook/Photographs/Boxed Slides/Slide ids/Comments.args" -common_args -L -P -v -overwrite_original

and a typical entry in the Comments.args file is:

-Caption-Abstract="Al, Sandy, Zermatt, July 54"
"D:/From-Netbook/Photographs/Boxed Slides/1954 Southwest Europe AYH/074 28 Al, Sandy, Zermatt, July 54.jpg"
-execute

I am getting error messages:

======== "D:/From-Netbook/Photographs/Boxed Slides/1954 Southwest Europe AYH/074 28 Al, Sandy, Zermatt, July 54.jpg"
    0 image files updated
    1 files weren't updated due to errors

for all the items in the .args file.

However when I enter:

exiftool -L -P -v -overwrite_original -Caption-Abstract="Al, Sandy, Zermatt, July 54" "D:/From-Netbook/Photographs/Boxed Slides/1954 Southwest Europe AYH/074 28 Al, Sandy, Zermatt, July 54.jpg"

with the filename and tag setting cut and pasted from the .arg file I see:

======== D:/From-Netbook/Photographs/Boxed Slides/1954 Southwest Europe AYH/074 28 Al, Sandy, Zermatt, July 54.jpg
Rewriting D:/From-Netbook/Photographs/Boxed Slides/1954 Southwest Europe AYH/074 28 Al, Sandy, Zermatt, July 54.jpg...
  Editing tags in: APP13 IPTC Photoshop
JPEG APP0 (14 bytes):
JPEG APP13 (226 bytes):
  Rewriting Photoshop
  Rewriting IPTC
JPEG COM (38 bytes):
JPEG DQT (65 bytes):
JPEG DQT (65 bytes):
JPEG SOF0:
JPEG DHT (27 bytes):
JPEG DHT (72 bytes):
JPEG DHT (25 bytes):
JPEG DHT (53 bytes):
JPEG SOS
    1 image files updated

and the tag is set.

Can you see any reason that this should work as a single command, but not executing from an argument file?

[Phil Harvey]

You do not quote arguments in the argfile.

- Phil

[calberga]

Thank you, thank you thank you!

I was (incorrectly) extrapolating from parsing errors when I put file names with spaces into the command interface.

I'm going back a read the documentation to see what else I may have missed.