Extracting keywords with recursive search

[poler]

Hello, I found the following command searching through the forum and LOVE it!  It gives me exactly what I want, a single text file with all of the keywords used in the current directory's *.jpg files with one keyword per line.

exiftool -keywords -sep "\n" -sep "\n" -b --ext txt *.jpg >> Keywords.txt

It is perfect.

The problem is that I cannot figure out how to get this output recursively.  I have tried inserting the -r switch at various locations on the command line, but cannot seem to hit the right spot.

How can I get this particular output, but via a recursive run through all *.jpg files including all subdirectories?

Thank you!

[StarGeek]

How can I get this particular output, but via a recursive run through all *.jpg files including all subdirectories?

There isn't a correct spot to hit.  The problem is the use of the wildcard, which is only going to pass a list of files to exiftool.  From the docs on the -r (-recurse) option

Only meaningful if FILE is a directory name.

See also Common Mistake #2, "Over-use of Wildcards in File Names".

You can use a dot to indicate the current directory or you can provide the full path to the directory.

Since you only want jpegs, you also have to usethe -ext (-extension) option to limit processing to those files.  In doing this, there isn't a need to exclude text files.

exiftool -keywords -r -sep "\n" -sep "\n" -b -ext jpg . >> Keywords.txt

[poler]

You can use a dot to indicate the current directory or you can provide the full path to the directory.

...

exiftool -keywords -r -sep "\n" -sep "\n" -b -ext jpg . >> Keywords.txt

I see the syntax now.  And have used with current directory and full path.

Thank you so much!