Recursive (-r) "if" operation not working

[José Oliver-Didier]

Hello,

I am trying to perform a "Find and Replace" operation using exiftool in all files and folders. However, the -r (recursive) function does not seem to be working, as it is not including the contents of the subfolders - only the files contain in the current folder. What am I doing wrong here?

exiftool -if "$Sub-Location eq 'Someplace'" *.jpg -Sub-location="Shomewhere else" -L -r

[StarGeek]

Wildcards don't work with the recurse option. You have to provide a directory path.  You use the dot . to indicate the current directory and the -ext option to limit the files to just jpgs.

Try this
exiftool -if "$Sub-Location eq 'Someplace'" -Sub-location="Shomewhere else" -L -r -ext jpg .

[Phil Harvey]

It should make sense if you think about it:  You have told ExifTool to recurse into directories, but you haven't specified any directories on the command line.

- Phil

[José Oliver-Didier]

Thanks!