Direct Exiftool to a specific folder

[RossTP]

Hi all,

I realise this might have been asked in a previous thread, but I cannot seem to find a solution (perhaps I'm searching for it incorrectly?). I'm basically trying to use Exiftool from within R, using a system() call, to copy images recursively from one part of my computer to another. In addition, I have to remove all metadata from every image. To achieve this I've used the following code:

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exiftool -r -all= -o '/.../images' -ext jpg . '/.../copied_images'

Now the code works, but instead of scanning the "images" folder, exiftool scans from my working directory. How do I tell exiftool to only look into the "images" folder? I thought

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'/.../images' would achieve this, but I guess I was wrong.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Computer: Mac; OS: macOS Sierra

Cheers,
Ross

[StarGeek]

exiftool -r -all= -o '/.../images' -ext jpg . '/.../copied_images'

The dot indicates you want to process the current directory.  It will also process '/.../copied_images'.  Those are the two directories you are asking exiftool to process.  Files will be copied to the directory specified by the -o option, in this case, '/.../images' is where the copied files will end up. 

[RossTP]

So that's what the dot does! Thanks so much!!