Question re. command line flags

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[Originally posted by cjsmall on 2009-12-16 00:58:22-08]

I haven't been paying close attention to all the posts on this list, so I
apologize if this has been discussed previously.

I have some scripts that call exiftool.  In one script I was using the
flags "-qq" which worked fine.  Recently I upgraded to a newer version
(7.99) and found that this no longer works, while "-q -q" does work.  Was a
change made to the command line parser that no longer allows flags to be
ganged together?

Thanks.

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Jeffery Small

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-12-16 11:19:56-08]

Hi Jeffery,

The meaning of -qq has never changed, and it is interpreted
as a request to extract the tag "qq".  To quote the OPTIONS section
of the exiftool application documentation:

Code:

  "Note that multiple single-character options may NOT be combined into
    one argument ecause this would be interpreted as a tag name."

- Phil

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[Originally posted by cjsmall on 2009-12-16 19:18:40-08]

Thanks Phil.

Sorry I missed that note in the documentation.  I'm still confused as to why my scripts with "-qq" were working previously, but happily, I made the change and all is fine now.

Regards,

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Jeff