Wildcards recursive

[mike1950r]

Hi,

just one question:

exiftool handles well wildcards for getting infos of files.
is there a tag to do this recursively, say scan thru the subfolders for wildcards?

Thanks for information.

Cheers mike

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Mike,

The best way to filter filenames in subfolders is the -ext option.

But if you can't filter on extension, then the -if option is the only alternative.  This allows you to use a full perl regular expression.  If most of the files will fail the condition, then -if5 will speed things up a lot. 

exiftool -if5 "$filename =~ /SOME_REGEX/" -r DIR ...

- Phil

[mike1950r]

Thank you very much, Phil.

This works really great and extremely fast.
Very powerful tool.

Cheers mike