[Digikam-users] Need some help to use user shell script tool in digikam 5 batch processing

[Simon Frei]

Hi,

I was stumbling over a similar problem a while ago. So essentially 
digikam gives two path/filenames to the script and expects the script to 
only read from $INPUT and in any case create a picture at $OUTPUT. After 
the script finishes it uses $OUTPUT and discards $INPUT. Correct?

A general question about where to get such information: The handbook is 
of incredible quality and still useful, but highly outdated and the 
digikam recipes contains good information, but is not a manual and the 
wiki is an assorted list of tutorials. How is a new and sometimes also a 
not so new user supposed to get recent information about how things work 
i.e. are to be used? Is it the tooltips?
I do not mean to criticise, you do an incredible job on the code (which 
is so huge that I unfortunately failed to contribute) and your time is 
well invested there. I would just like to know what the "official" take 
on digikam's documentation is.

Cheers,
Simon

On 26/06/16 10:16, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> In this case, if no new image data to be created, the $INPUT file must be
> copied to $OUTPUT.
>
> cp $INPUT $OUTPUT
>
> And performe the EXIF operations then to the $OUTPUT file.
>
> Maik
>
> On Sonntag, 26. Juni 2016 09:54:50 CEST Photonoxx wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I test Digikam 5 from Philip Johnsson PPA on ubuntu 16.04 and would like
>> to use the "user shell script" in batch processing but I only succeed to
>> get empty jpg files for the moment.
>>
>> What I would like to do is just to apply two command lines using exiv2 to
>> remove some metadata informations and set modifify the creation date
>>
>> Basically, to remove some metadata i use a command file in exiv2 (first
>> line) and for the date the second command line with each time the filename
>> at the end of each line.
>>
>>    exiv2 -m'/media/samsungeco/Urbexpassion/exiv2-cleanup.cmd'
>>    exiv2 -Y'-30' -O'+7' -D'-60' ad
>>
>> So, to proceed, I begin to use two differents user shell scripts with one
>> of the command line above in each and I add $INPUT at the end like this
>>
>> for the first tool
>>    exiv2 -m'/media/samsungeco/Urbexpassion/exiv2-cleanup.cmd' $INPUT
>>
>> for the second one
>>    exiv2 -Y'-30' -O'+7' -D'-60' ad $INPUT
>>
>> But I only get a file with the right name but with a size of 0 byte
>>
>> I tried to escape some special characters with no results.
>>
>> So if somebody here could tell what I missed or what I'm doing wrong, I
>> would really appreciate
>
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