TCC 20.00.14 x64 Windows 10 [Version 6.3.16299]
I have been struggling a bit with the command-line tool Exiftool, a popular program that reads and writes EXIF and IPTC data from/to image files. The program has had some trials and tribulations under Windows 10 but the latest version now runs on my machine.
I launch it via batch file this way:
c:\apps\exiftool\exiftool.exe %$
With arguments that tell it to read data from a JPEG or other image file, the program works fine.
With arguments that tell it to write new EXIF or IPTC data to a file, though, it fails with error messages indicating that I'd made errors in its command line (I hadn't).
I tried quoting %$ within the batch file and got other kinds of errors, also indicating errors in the Exiftool command line.
Then I decided to try using the parameter %* instead of %$ in the batch file — and the "write" features now work.
What might TCC be passing via %$ or "%$" that's different from what it passes via %*?
If it matters: when I set it up to run as an alias, this way:
alias exiftool `c:\apps\exiftool\exiftool.exe %$`
... the %$ parameter worked just fine.
I have been struggling a bit with the command-line tool Exiftool, a popular program that reads and writes EXIF and IPTC data from/to image files. The program has had some trials and tribulations under Windows 10 but the latest version now runs on my machine.
I launch it via batch file this way:
c:\apps\exiftool\exiftool.exe %$
With arguments that tell it to read data from a JPEG or other image file, the program works fine.
With arguments that tell it to write new EXIF or IPTC data to a file, though, it fails with error messages indicating that I'd made errors in its command line (I hadn't).
I tried quoting %$ within the batch file and got other kinds of errors, also indicating errors in the Exiftool command line.
Then I decided to try using the parameter %* instead of %$ in the batch file — and the "write" features now work.
What might TCC be passing via %$ or "%$" that's different from what it passes via %*?
If it matters: when I set it up to run as an alias, this way:
alias exiftool `c:\apps\exiftool\exiftool.exe %$`
... the %$ parameter worked just fine.