Exiv2

How nice to hear from you. Gosh, it's been a while. 2012 maybe? Since we last spoke, I've retired and returned from Silicon Valley to my home in England.

We released Exiv2 v0.27 RC1 last Friday:

http://dev.exiv2.org/boards/3/topics/2830
http://exiv2.dyndns.org

I highly recommend the O'Reilly Book "Learning the bash shell". Bash is very useful. It takes a while to learn. Well worth the effort.

Can you explain what this does? It goes crazy on my laptop and shows lots of binary data. You're adding key/value pairs to something in IPTC. Can you give me a couple of files before/after running this and I'll see what you're doing.

I've tidied your code to make it easier to read and reordered the functions (declare them, then use them).

#!/bin/bash

function twokey () {
    taxt=$(echo "$k" | cut -d, -f2)
    keycount=$(echo "$k" | tr ',' ' ' | wc -w)
    for keys in $(echo "$k" | tr ',' ' ' | wc -w)
    do
        echo "${keys}" 
        exiv2 --keep -M"add Iptc.Application2.Keywords $taxt" -M"add Xmp.dc.subject $taxt" "$f" 
        ((taxt++))
    done
    exiv2 -g Iptc.Application2.Keywords -Pv "$f" 
}

function dothedeed () {
    echo -e "Adding Keywords to \e[5;42m$f\e[0m." 
    echo -e "$f\t$k" 
    keycount=$(echo "$k" | tr ',' ' ' | wc -w)
    echo "$f: There are $keycount keywords." 
    echo "Here's the Keyword string." 
    echo -e "$k" 
    exiftool -sep "," -fast5 -overwrite_original_in_place -q -P -Keywords+="$k" -Subject+="$k" "$f" 
    twokey
}

function dav () {
    echo -e "What text file will I be using?" 
    read -er item
    f=$item
    while IFS="^" read -r f k
    do
        echo -e "File is \e[31m$f\e[0m" 
        if [[ ! -f "$f" ]]; then
            echo "I don't see $f in this directory." 
            echo "Moving to next list item." 
            continue
        fi
        dothedeed
    done<"$f" 
}

dav

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By the way, I love this line of code:

echo "I don't see $f in this directory."

Yes, that is a precious one, isn't it.

Good to hear you're back in England. Funny thing .. I just sent Andreas an email asking where you were. I should have logged in here and checked this thread instead.

Always going for the long, hard route to a solution, me. Linux (currently running Kubuntu 17.04) is treating me well, and vice versa. Do you know if there are .debs available on dyndyns.org? As before I'm not keen on installing from scratch unless I absolutely must. Ubuntu's repositories bring us Exiv2 users up to 0.25, which is OK with me; I can wait until I upgrade to Ku-18 (available but I must backup -- about 75 GB -- before I install it). I'm sure it's in the repos for the newer versions.

Steve W

We could produce debs, I think. Thanks to Luis, we have now 100% adopted CMake as our build infrastructure on all platforms. CMake has a companion CPack for creating packages and we're using that to create the source and binary bundles for the web site. It's reasonable to believe that CPack could produce what you want. However, as you know, everything takes time and Luis and I have been working long days recently. Extending the scope of the project is impossible if we're going to make Exiv2 v0.27 GM for Christmas (and we will).

I believe ubuntu-18.04 LTS (which I run on my machines) has Exiv2 v0.25. I had a discussion with a darktable user during the week and concluded that we're still stuck in the dark ages!

I tested your revision of my script. The IPTC keyword adding is a bit off; any hyphenated keys get repeated as the last keyword, and the XMP Subject is__ the hyphenated keyword.

Here's a zip with a test picture -- as yet un-keyword-ed --, the script and the keywords I was going to add to it. I'll try get Exiv2 0.27 (probably from an on-web resource), install it and try again.

Well, I tried installing 0.25 from github. git clone worked OK, but apparently my CMake (which I just now installed) didn't have a default compiler set.
A copy of my output log is attached. Should I get the CMake GUI?

Steve

Robin,

Even with 0.27 installed, the revised script only writes 1 random keyword, this time to both IPTC Keywords and XMP Subject. I'm at a loss as to how to improve it.

Steve

I don't know what this script is meant to do. Can you post:

1) An image before and after it runs with exif tool.
I want to know what you're trying to do to the image

2) A transcript of the user experience.
I never use read in scripts. I don't know what that code is attempting to do and it produces a load of binary output on MacOS-X.

Robin

As the current announcement thread on 0.27 RC1 is locked, I'll make this announcement here, for the benefit of new users of the product.

Robin emailed me earlier today (15-11) to say RC2 is going to be released to the usual places (github and dyndyns.org) tomorrow. He didn't say what the specific changes or fixes were, but I'm sure there are as many of those as there were with RC1.

Steve Wright

Thanks Steve. We've had very good feedback on RC1 and dealt with everything reported. The fixes are listed in releasenotes.txt

I am really pleased with Exiv2 v0.27. It's the best tested and documented release of Exiv2. This is thanks to Luis and Dan who have done outstanding work. With more folks working on Exiv2, I've had time to improve the release process and the web site.

The release should be available on http://exiv2.dyndns.org by 21:00GMT on 2018-11-16

Finally working

Thanks again to Robin.

For anyone curious as to the changes, here's the whole script (unworkable parts edited out):

#!/bin/bash

function twokey () {
    keycount=$(echo "$k" | tr ',' ' ' | wc -w)
    echo "$f: There are $keycount keywords." 
    IFS=,
    for ky in $k
    do
      exiv2 --keep -M"add Iptc.Application2.Keywords $ky" -M"add Xmp.dc.subject $ky" "$f" 
      echo "Adding keyword $ky" 
    done
    returned=$(exiv2 -g Iptc.Application2.Keywords -Pv "$f" | tr '\n' ',' | sed "s/,$//")
 }

function dav () {
    echo -e "What text file will I be using?" 
    read -er item
    f=$item
    while IFS="^" read -r f k
    do
        echo -e "File is \e[31m$f\e[0m" 
        if [[ ! -f "$f" ]]; then
            echo "I don't see $f in this directory." 
            echo "Moving to next list item." 
            continue
        fi
        twokey
    done<"$f" 
}

dav

I'm still totally baffled about what this is meant to do and it produces lots of binary output on the terminal.

I've written something that sort of does what I think you want. I never use bash read, I use the "Software Tools" approach of using command-line arguments.

$ curl -O http://clanmills.com/Stonehenge.jpg
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 6599k  100 6599k    0     0   686k      0  0:00:09  0:00:09 --:--:-- 1191k
$ exiv2 -pa --grep Keywords  Stonehenge.jpg 
$ ./steve.sh name Robin  age 67 skill C++ --files Stonehenge.jpg
$ exiv2 -pa --grep Keywords  Stonehenge.jpg 
Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String     10  name,Robin
Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String      6  age,67
Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String      9  skill,C++
$ ./steve.sh occupation retired --files Stonehenge.jpg
$ exiv2 -pa --grep Keywords  Stonehenge.jpg 
Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String     10  name,Robin
Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String      6  age,67
Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String      9  skill,C++
Iptc.Application2.Keywords                   String     18  occupation,retired
$ 

Here's the code in steve.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
this=$0

syntaxError()
{
    echo "usage: $this [key value]+ --files file ..." 
    exit $1
}

if [ "$#" == "0" ]; then syntaxError ; fi

declare -a key
declare -a value
declare -a files
N=0
F=0

while [ $# -ne 0 ] ; do
    case "$1" in
      -h|--help|-\?)
         syntaxError 0
      ;;

      --files)
        shift
        while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
            if [ ! -e $1 ]; then
                echo $1 does not exist
                exit 2
            fi
            files[$F]=$1
            F=$((F+1))
            shift
        done
      ;;

      *)if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
            key[$N]=$1;
            value[$N]=$2;
            shift 2
        else
            echo "key/value pairs aren't matched" 
            syntaxError 2
        fi
        N=$((N+1))
      ;;
    esac
done

if [ $F -eq 0 ]; then
    echo no files given
    syntaxError 1
fi

n=0
while [ $n -ne $N ]; do
    k=${key[$n]}
    v=${value[$n]}
    f=0
    while [ $f -ne $F ]; do
        file=${files[$f]}
        exiv2 -M"add Iptc.Application2.Keywords $k,$v" "$file" 
        f=$((f+1))
    done
    n=$((n+1))
done

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