Search Comments field by keyword and copy to new folder named with the keyword

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[Originally posted by visualintel on 2009-08-05 02:29:36-07]

How do I search pictures based on a keyword in the "comments" field and copy/move those pictures to a new subfolder named based on the keyword?

For example, I have a folder of 1000+ properly tagged (in the comments field) pictures. I hope to run the ExifTool and search for keyword "school" in the comments field and then copy/move all those pictures contain the keyword "school" in the comments field to a new subfolder named "school".

Thanks!

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-08-11 17:31:32-07]

The command looks something like this:

exiftool -if "$comment =~ /school/i" -directory=%d/school DIR

where DIR is your directory name.  Note you must use single
quotes instead of double quotes if running in Unix or Mac OS X.

Also, I don't think you really want to use the Comment tag.  Run
"exiftool -s" to see the tag name that you should use.

- Phil