Filtering Only Image Files

[aussieboykie]

Other than using multiple -ext options to specify which file extensions are in scope is there a way of restricting processing to common image/movie types such as jpg, png, mov, mp4, etc.?  Some sort of "image" group definition that could be included without having to specify each group member individually?

[StarGeek]

You could check the MIMEType
-if "$MIMEType=~/image/"
-if "$MIMEType=~/video/"

Though I think that using -ext would be quicker because I think that this will still do some processing on each file to see if it matched, while -ext will ignore any file that's not included.  You could make an args file with multiple ext options.  For example, creating a Movies.args

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-ext
mp4
-ext
mkv
-ext
avi
-ext
m4v
-ext
ts
And then you could include it with -@ Movies.args

[aussieboykie]

You could check the MIMEType
-if "$MIMEType=~/image/"
-if "$MIMEType=~/video/"

Thanks. I wasn't aware of MIMEType. Can I rely on MIMEType being present? From some quick tests on a variety of files, including scanned images and some very old images, it certainly looks like testing for one or other of these to be true does the trick.

[Phil Harvey]

MimeType should always be present unless there was an error reading the file.  If it isn't, let me know because that would be a bug.

- Phil