IF and Only IF

[wesley]

I have two commands, work great.

exiftool -r -overwrite_original -Comment"<BaseName" /Volumes/Media
exiftool -r -overwrite_original -Title"<BaseName" /Volumes/Media

But I would like them to work "IF and Only IF" the title and or comment is DIFFERENT from BaseName. I'd like to run this semi regularly, but don't want to go through all the trouble if its already been done once.

is that possible?

is it also possible to merge the two commands into one?

Thanks!

[Phil Harvey]

This should do it:

exiftool -r -overwrite_original -Comment"<BaseName" -Title"<BaseName" -if "not $comment or not $title or $comment ne $basename or $title ne $basename" /Volumes/Media

- Phil

[wesley]

exiftool -r -overwrite_original -Comment"<BaseName" -Title"<BaseName" -if "not $comment or not $title or $comment ne $basename or $title ne $basename" /Volumes/Media

That doesn't appear to work. I am testing it on a single directory.. relevant metadata is:

ExifTool Version Number         : 12.42
File Name                       : Violin Rehersal (2022).mp4
Directory                       : .
Comment                         : Violin Rehersal (2022).mp4
XMP Toolkit                     : Image::ExifTool 12.42
Title                           : Violin Rehersal (2022).mp4
 
when I run

exiftool -r -overwrite_original -Comment"<BaseName" -Title"<BaseName" -if "not $comment or not $title or $comment ne $basename or $title ne $basename" ./ 

I get

1 directories scanned
1 files failed condition
0 image files read

The file exist as:
Violin Rehersal (2022).mp4

[Phil Harvey]

What O/S are you using?  Did you read my signature?

- Phil

[wesley]

What O/S are you using?  Did you read my signature?

- Phil

Of course, that fixed it!

thanks

[wesley]

Is there a log? or a way to see which failed the condition? more verbose output?


1010 directories scanned
17 files failed condition
0 image files read

[StarGeek]

Take a look at the -progress option or the -v (-verbose) option.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Wesley,

To get a log of all files that failed the condition, you can use the -efile4 option, like this:

exiftool -efile4 log.txt ...

Read the -efile option documentation for more details.

- Phil