running EXIFTool script leave shell in odd shape

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[Originally posted by mattkime on 2009-11-28 04:44:49-08]

I'm running the latest version of the EXIFTool script on my mac. I'm running OS X 10.6.2 which provides the bash shell as default. when i run

exiftool -k filename

the shell no longer provides a history and hitting return doesn't advance no the next line -

mwks-mbp-2:~ mattkime$ mwks-mbp-2:~ mattkime$ mwks-mbp-2:~ mattkime$

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This is annoying. But I'm trying to extract the User Comments exif field from the doc. advice?

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-11-30 12:00:23-08]

Wow.  This would really suck if 10.6 broke the terminal this
badly.  But since you only want to see EXIF UserComment, you
could extract this tag only and avoid this problem:

Code:

exiftool -usercomment FILE

- Phil

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[Originally posted by mattkime on 2009-12-01 01:04:06-08]

why does it say "press any key" ? is the output being piped through an app to do paging?

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-12-01 11:15:38-08]

The "press any key" is the purpose of the -k option.
This option is usually only used in Windows when launched from
the GUI to prevent the terminal window from closing
before you can read the output.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by mattkime on 2009-12-02 00:02:43-08]

that was the problem! gah, silly...