autocompletion?

[Alan Clifford]

I seem to type datetimeoriginal and xmp:datetimeoriginal rather a lot.

There seems to be two ways around this:  I could learn how to set up autocompletion for exiftool or somehow make dto and xmp:dto work as synonyms.  Any pointers as to how I would go about creating the latter?

[StarGeek]

Create a shortcut

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%Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Shortcuts = (
MyDTO => ['EXIF:DateTimeOriginal','XMP:DateTimeOriginal'],
);

Writes to both tags with a single assignment. And will list both tags with
exiftool -mydto <FileOrDir>

[Alan Clifford]

Create a shortcut

Thanks for that, I'll investigate further.  I don't want to write to both of them as they can be different.

[StarGeek]

You can just make separate shortcuts for both.  DTO and XDTO for example.  Myself, rather than type out DateTimeOriginal everytime, I have a shortcut of DTO that points to DateTimeOriginal.  I do this with any long tag name that I use a lot, e.g. HS for HierarchicalSubject, CapAb for Caption-Abstract, etc.

[Phil Harvey]

Or you can just have StarGeek's DTO shortcut, and use -dto and/or -xmp:dto in your commands.

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%Image::ExifTool::UserDefined::Shortcuts = (
    DTO => 'DateTimeOriginal',
);

- Phil

[Alan Clifford]

Thanks Stargeek and Phil.  That is perfect.  I wish I'd asked a long time ago.

[Alan Clifford]

exiftool -a -dto -fileorder xmp:dto -ext jpg -ext mov .

That is so much easier.