Multiple -d options ??

[q159866]

Dear forum,

I want to move my files to a date-dependent directory with a exiftool-command like this:
exiftool "-filename<CreateDate" -d %Y/%Y_%m_%d/raw/%%f.%%e filelist

Now I would like to set some tags also in a date-dependent way like:
exiftool -IFD0:Copyright"<Copyright (c) $createdate Robert all rights" -d %Y

Can I do these operations in one command. My experiments like

exiftool "-filename<CreateDate" -d %Y/%Y_%m_%d/raw/%%f.%%e -IFD0:Copyright"<Copyright (c) $createdate Robert all rights" -d %Y filelist

were not successful, due to the restriction of the –d-option (can only be used once).

Any suggestions?

Cheers

Robert

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Robert,

This has been a fairly common question recently.  You can only use one -d option, so the other date/time value must be formatted manually.  One way to do this is via the advanced formatting feature:

exiftool "-filename<CreateDate" -d %Y/%Y_%m_%d/raw/%%f.%%e -IFD0:Copyright"<Copyright (c) ${createdate#;s/:.*//} Robert all rights" filelist

Here I start with an unformatted CreateDate in the copyright string (by adding a "#" after the tag name), then use an advanced formatting expression to remove everything in the date/time value from the first colon onwards.

- Phil

[q159866]

Hi Phil,

thanks a lot for your help. It works perfectly now for me.


Cheers

Robert
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