Posted on 2006-12-26 22:23:19-08 by jlbec in response to 3795
Re: How to had carriage return in IPTC:Caption-abstract?
Phil,

How can one do this in "-@ argfile" format? If I want to use the following:

exiftool -iptc:caption-abstract="aaa\ bbb" img.jpg


it only works from the command line. If I put:

-iptc:caption-abstract="aaa\ bbb"


in /tmp/argfile, and run:

exiftool -@ /tmp/argfile img.jpg


it gives an error. The second line is unrecognized.

What about "-iptc:caption-abstract=<FILE"? Well, that doesn't support adding lines. I can't do "-iptc:caption-abstract+=<FILE". Whereas with "-@ argfile" I can do +=. I'm really wary of having to extract the data, then munge it myself, then reinsert it. And generating shell escapes is always nutty.

- Joel
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