need to replace single qoutes by double

[swieber]

Hi all,

I am a newbie. Could someone support? If have a question. I am executing exiftool -if '$filename =~ /^IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}\.\w*/' '-alldates<filename' -overwrite_original -v -r -i '@eaDir' -ext JPG . -fast2.

This gives me an error on windows machine. I need to replace single qoutes by double. But which ones?

[StarGeek]

This gives me an error on windows machine. I need to replace single qoutes by double. But which ones?

On Windows CMD, all of them.
exiftool -if "$filename=~/^IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}\.\w*/" "-alldates<filename" -overwrite_original -v -r -i "@eaDir" -ext JPG -fast2 .

CMD uses double quotes to enclose any argument with a greater/less than symbol, a space, a dollar sign, or a caret.  If there are quotes needed inside of an argument, such as when a helper function is used, those would be single quotes.

Also, you probably don't need a lot of the options listed in that command.  You probably(/should) could remove -v and -i "@eaDir"

If you're using Windows PowerShell, then single quotes should be used, but be aware that PS parses commands differently than any other shell.  Pay attention to the highlighting when you use it.

[swieber]

Hi @Stargeek,

Thanks for your support. It works fine except from some warning. Could you assist me a little further? Much appreciated. See the log below. What do i need to change (just applied your command). Looks like he takes the minutes out of the file name?

Olav

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Warning: Minutes '73' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0073.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '74' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0074.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '75' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0075.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '76' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0076.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '77' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0077.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '78' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0078.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '79' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0079.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '80' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0080.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '81' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0081.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '82' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0082.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '83' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0083.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '84' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0084.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '85' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0085.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '86' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0086.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '87' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0087.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '88' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0088.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '89' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0089.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '90' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0090.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '91' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0091.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '92' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0092.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '93' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0093.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '94' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0094.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '95' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0095.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '96' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0096.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '97' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0097.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '98' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0098.jpg
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Warning: Minutes '99' out of range 0..59 in ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal (PrintConvInv) - C:/Users/olav/Desktop/2021/IMG-20211204-WA0099.jpg
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[Phil Harvey]

The problem is that the last 4 digits aren't the hours/minutes.  Try this to set all times to 00:00

exiftool -if "$filename=~/^IMG-\d{8}-WA\d{4}\.\w*/" "-alldates<${filename;/(\d{8})/ and $_=$1} 00:00:00" -overwrite_original -v -r -i "@eaDir" -ext JPG -fast2 .

- Phil

[swieber]

Perfect. This works! Thanks!