Need some help to use user shell script tool in digikam 5 batch processing

[Photonoxx]

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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[Maik Qualmann]

You must write your changes to $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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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Maik,

Perhaps put this information in tooltip widget from BQM tool settings panel can help end user.

Gilles

2016-06-26 10:06 GMT+02:00 Maik Qualmann <[hidden email]>:

You must write your changes to $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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[Maik Qualmann]

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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[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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