SebS
Reputation: 591
How do I execute a command string in BASH?
I would like to execute the following from a bash script
exiftool -r -v5 -P -ext mov -ext avi -ext mp4 -ext 3gp "-Directory<MediaCreateDate" -d "/media/data/Home Movies/testdestdir/%Y/%b/" "/media/data/Home Movies/testsrcdir/"
I have built this by concatenating strings into a $CMDEXEC when echoing the variable it looks fine but I cannot execute it from bash script. I tried various combinations without luck.
`$CMDEXEC` >> $LOGFILE
$($CMDEXEC) >> $LOGFILE
etc.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 2283
Answers (1)
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