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LilBro
LilBro

Reputation: 81

ExifTool need to find name of the first file in sequence

I am using third party image viewer (XnView) that allows to select files i want and then run ExifTool with custom command line on this files only.

When i open multiple files using ExifTool i get name of each file using ${FileName}.

However i need to find name of only first file from all files selected, because i need to create folder with name of first file in sequence then move all files there.

-k -Filename<${Directory}\${FileName;s/\.[^.]*$//}\${Filename} - this moves each file to separate folder, need to move all files to one folder

Is there way to get file names array so i can then query first entry e.g. filesArray[1] or how can i get name of first file?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 219

Answers (1)

StarGeek
StarGeek

Reputation: 5781

Related thread on the Exiftool forums

Exiftool only processes one file at a time and doesn't have the ability to extract a static value from a list and hold on to that value. You'll have to create a script to find the value you want.

If you're using Linux/Mac, see command line find first file in a directory
If you're using Windows, maybe Batch file to list only the first file from every directories in a tree and output the results in a text file

Upvotes: 1

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