Problem with wildcard if disk is also specified

[ArthurT]

My search through bugs with "wildcard" didn't show a hit for this. I'm running Win10. It works fine with Exiftool version 9.40, but fails with 11.23, 12.21, and 12.35 (those are the only ones I tested with).

This works fine, regardless of level:

exiftool outba*.jpg


It shows:

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19:24:33 2021-11-12 Fri z:\comics\failblog>exiftool outba*.jpg
ExifTool Version Number         : 12.35
File Name                       : Outback.jpg
Directory                       : .
    <snip rest>


This fails to find the file starting somewhere above 9.40:

exiftool z:outba*.jpg


I copied the file to the root of z: to see if it found it there, but it's not making that mistake.

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks for this report.  I'll look into it as soon as I get a chance.

- Phil

[Phil Harvey]

I have reproduced this, and it will be fixed in ExifTool 12.36.

Until then, older versions will all work if you add a slash (either forward or backward) after the drive designator, ie)

exiftool z:/outba*.jpg

or

exiftool z:\outba*.jpg

Thanks again for this report.

- Phil