Thumbnail creation using stay_open

[pixelextreme]

The following ARGUMENT File does not produce the thumbnail. Instead the binary output appears on stdout. If I run the same parameters from the command line the proper thumbnail is created. I appear to have a shell stdout redirection problem when using stay_open mode.

ARGUMENT FILE
-b
-ThumbnailImage
V:\tmp\IMG_1986.JPG
>
V:\tmp\thumbnail\IMG_1986.JPG
-execute


COMMAND LINE
exiftool -b -ThumbnailImage C:\tmp\IMG_1986.JPG > C:\tmp\thumbnail\IMG_1986.JPG

[Phil Harvey]

The redirection is a function of the shell.  The argument file does not use the shell.  To send the console output to a file from arguments in an argfile, use the -w option like this:

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-b
-thumbnailimage
-w
v:/tmp/thumbnail/%f.JPG
...

- Phil