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Posted on Sun Aug 10 15:28:29 2008 by mixx
Idea for a new syntax or option
Phil, I wanted to traverse my media directory and chart out how many different file name extensions do I have. Therefore I *would* have used something like this
exiftool -r -p "$directory\$filename" -w+ "MyDIR\%e.txt" MyDir

That would have given me one file for each distinct extension and in that file a list of all images with that extension. That would have been very useful.

For that I just invented (??) a new syntax for the option: "-w" namely "-w+" which does exactly the same thing as "-w", but it *appends* to the file named after the option.

This is probably very easy to program and would be useful, I think. What do yo think?

Cheers, Mixx
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Posted on Fri Aug 15 15:06:36 2008 by exiftool in response to 8525
Re: Idea for a new syntax or option
-w+ (or something like it) is a good idea. I will consider this for a future release. Thanks for the suggestion. - Phil
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