Bug? Tags saved with quotes

[_alexs_]

Just found that exiftool writes user-defined tags including single quotes. For example, if I write tag with command

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exiftool -Specie='Canis lupus' image.jpg
Then tag value saved as 'Canis lupus' including this single quotes. IMHO, it is much better to strip this quotes and save tag value without them

[BogdanH]

Hi,

If you're on Windows, use double quotes, i.e.:
exiftool -Specie="Canis lupus" image.jpg

Bogdan

[_alexs_]

Thanks for the answer, but unfortunately it didn't work. I tried with single and double quotes and always this quotes are added to tag value.

[StarGeek]

Maybe try quotes around the whole section?

exiftool "-Specie=Canis lupus" image.jpg

[_alexs_]

Great, thanks! With quotes around whole option it works