Move Images with Particular Dimension to Subfolder

[rodertroy]

In the following bash script I don't know where to place the variable "$dimension". I want to use the variable in place of "> 800", so that I can specify at the CLI prompt what images greater or smaller I want moved to a subfolder. I've tried inserting it various places with no luck.

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#!/bin/sh


echo "Please type Dimension and press enter"
read dimension

if [ -z "$dimension" ]; then
printf "no caption was selected, aborting!\n"
exit 1
fi
printf "dimension is $dimension\n"

exiftool -q -r -ext jpg -if '$ImageHeight > 800' -p '$Directory/$FileName' . -Directory=exiftool

[StarGeek]

Use double quotes around it so it's treated as a Bash variable instead of an exiftool one.  See this post, though that's a bit more complex. Also this post.

I think something like this might work, though I'm not sure because I can't test it out on Windows.
-if '$ImageHeight >'"$dimension"
or maybe
-if '$ImageHeight >'"${dimension}'"

[rodertroy]

When I try both your suggests it just places a file called "dimensions" in the working directory.

I'm using Windows Subsystem for Linux (which uses Ubuntu). My other exiftool bash scripts work fine using WSL.

I'll check out the links, tx.

[rodertroy]

Actually I tried your suggestion again and it worked!

This is the code:

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#!/bin/sh

echo "Please type Dimension and press enter"
read dimension

if [ -z "$dimension" ]; then
printf "no caption was selected, aborting!\n"
exit 1
fi
printf "dimension is $dimension\n"

exiftool -q -r -ext jpg -if '$ImageHeight >'"$dimension" -p '$Directory/$FileName' . -Directory=exiftool

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