Problem with Copy to Directory Based on Keyword Tag

[wpebley]

Hi!

I have a directory full of about 5200 .jpg photo files on a Windows 10 machine.  I use tagging to organize them.  Now I want to copy photos tagged with SlideShow in the Keywords tag to a separate directory.

Inside a batch file script, I was able to successfully set the tag Keywords to SlideShow using the following command:

exiftool -keywords+=SlideShow "C:\Users\<myname>\<mypicsfolder>\%%~nxi"[/i]

However, when I try to run the following command (while in the <mypicsfolder>) to do the copy based on that tag, it gives me "Error: '-if' already exists - ./<somefilename>.jpg"... (I don't need recursive because the directory is flat, correct?)

exiftool -o . -if '-Keywords =~ /SlideShow/' '-directory=SlideShow' .

If even tried to match the case of "keywords" as shown below...

exiftool -o . -if '-keywords =~ /SlideShow/' '-directory=SlideShow' .

But that gives me:

Error: File not found - ~
Error: File not found - /SlideShow/'
Error: File not found - '-directory=SlideShow'

And I have to Ctrl-C to terminate the command.

I'm sure it's something simple, but I've tried a bunch of iterations and can't get it to work!

Any help will be appreciated!

[Phil Harvey]

In the Windows cmd shell you must use double quotes (") instead of single quotes (').

- Phil