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Read and write metadata to the directory itself

NNBnh opened this issue · comments

commented

Hello, i realy like to use exiftool as a ls replacement

But when we run:

exiftool test-dir/

it output:

    1 directories scanned
    0 image files read

So if we are in a directory like this:

Permissions Size User Date Modified  Name
drwxr-xr-x     - nnb  12 Thg 2 16:50 test-dir/
drwxr-xr-x     - nnb   6 Thg 2 21:12 eww/
drwxr-xr-x     - nnb   6 Thg 2 23:45 flappybirdart/
.rw-r--r--   28k nnb   7 Thg 2 22:21 bg.xcf
.rwxr-xr-x    34 nnb  12 Thg 2 17:12 coderun
.rw-r--r--     0 nnb   1 Thg 2 16:32 doom.txt
.rw-r--r--  3,5k nnb   6 Thg 2 21:51 no.xcf
.rw-r--r--   829 nnb   3 Thg 2 10:40 zughy-32.gpl

then run:

exiftool -quiet -table -FilePermissions -FileSize -FileModifyDate -FileName *

we get:

rw-r--r--  28 kB      2021:02:07 22:21:38+07:00  bg.xcf
rwxr-xr-x  34 bytes   2021:02:12 17:12:34+07:00  coderun
rw-r--r--  0 bytes    2021:02:01 16:32:08+07:00  doom.txt
rw-r--r--  293 bytes  2021:02:06 21:11:41+07:00  .vimspector.json
rw-r--r--  13 kB      2021:02:08 20:53:56+07:00  mordecai2.png
rw-r--r--  14 kB      2021:02:07 22:22:52+07:00  bg.png
rw-r--r--  12 kB      2021:02:08 19:54:58+07:00  bird2.png
rw-r--r--  12 kB      2021:02:08 19:53:49+07:00  bird0.png
rw-r--r--  14 kB      2021:02:08 20:50:21+07:00  mordecai0.png
rw-r--r--  8.9 kB     2021:02:06 14:23:49+07:00  base.png
rw-r--r--  12 kB      2021:02:08 19:55:34+07:00  bird1.png
rw-r--r--  13 kB      2021:02:08 20:55:13+07:00  mordecai1.png
rw-r--r--  3.4 kB     2021:02:06 21:51:08+07:00  no.xcf
rw-r--r--  829 bytes  2021:02:03 10:40:56+07:00  zughy-32.gpl

test-dir/ eww/ flappybirdart/ is nowhere to be found. instead we have .vimspector.json (it's inside eww/) and bg.png base.png bird0.png bird1.png bird2.png mordecai0.png mordecai1.png mordecai2.png (inside flappybirdart/)

I wish exiftool have something like the -d option from GNU ls, this explain in ls's manpage:

...

-d, --directory
       list directories themselves, not their contents

...
commented

You can do this to list all files in a directory:

exiftool -quiet -table -FilePermissions -FileSize -FileModifyDate -FileName -fast5 -ext '*' .

This will prevent a listing of the files in each directory, but doesn't list the directory names as I think you want. I can look into doing this but it may be tricky because exiftool is file-oriented.

Also note I've added -fast5 to speed this up since you aren't extracting any real tags.

commented

OK. Done. The new -list_dir option allows you to read/write directories as if they were regular files.

commented

Wow this is fast, thank you for your enthusiasm! exiftool can now be a fully ls replacement with support for metadata and i love it 😄