Possible more than one command in if-true?

[Roberto]

Hi.

Could not figure out why this (obviously) works:

exiftool -if "not $title" -p "$filename" -execute -if "not $title" "-title<${directory;s/%TEMPLATE%//}" -common_args -overwrite_original -r .

but this - which seems cleaner and more efficient - doesn't:

exiftool -if "not $title" "-title<${directory;s/%TEMPLATE%//}" -p "$filename" -overwrite_original -r .

I am under the understanding that -if should run until either an -execute or "end of command" but it seems only one command is execute (the print never happens in the second command). I just wanted a list of the files updated.

Running on Windows 10, exiftool version 12.74.

Thanks,
/Roberto

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Roberto,

Extracting tags to console and writing tags are two separate operations in the ExifTool scheme of things.  Read the application documentation down to the 2nd paragraph of the DESCRIPTION.  Also see the schematic here -- blue lines are read mode, and red lines are write mode.

- Phil

[StarGeek]

I just wanted a list of the files updated.

Take a look at the -progress option.

Example, Test-2.jpg already has a title and is skipped

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C:\>exiftool -P -overwrite_original -progress -if "not $Title" "-Title<Filename" Y:\!temp\x\y\z
======== Y:/!temp/x/y/z/test-1.jpg [1/3]
======== Y:/!temp/x/y/z/test-3.jpg [3/3]
    1 directories scanned
    1 files failed condition
    2 image files updated

[Phil Harvey]

I just wanted a list of the files updated.

I missed that.  The -efile8 option outputs a list of updated files:

exiftool -efile8 file_list.txt ...

- Phil

[Roberto]

Thank you StarGeek and Phil.