How to move files based on more than one tag

[frenk]

Hi all,
i'm beginning with exiftool and now i have a problem. I want to move a file into a destination folder, based on file's metatags. For example i want to move an image in folder %Y/%m/model, where %y and %m are year and month of the metatag datetimeoriginal, and model is the value of the model metatag. My attempt is wrote below:

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exiftool '-Directory<datetimeoriginal/model' -d %y/%m DIR

I get some strange error after the script's execution, so:

• How can i fix my problem?
• How do operators <, =, =<, +< work?
• What's the exiftool's work when i modify the -directory metatag of some file?

[Phil Harvey]

First, if you are in Windows you should use double quotes instead of single quotes.

Second, the syntax is

   "-directory<$datetimeoriginal/$model"   (Windows)

or

   '-directory<$datetimeoriginal/$model'   (Mac/Linux)

The ExifTool "<" operator copies the value of one tag to another tag.  You can read about it in detail in the -tagsFromFile section of the ExifTool application documentation.

See this page for more details about writing the FileName and Directory tags.

- Phil

[frenk]

Thank you Phil