Image-ExifTool - Problems renaming using caption-abstract

Posted on Thu Sep 4 10:46:02 2008 by darryl
Problems renaming using caption-abstract
Hi: I'm on Windows XP with ExifTool 7.41, and I'm trying to rename a file based on its caption. They're kids names, like Zach Smithee and Troy Calviness. Captions were set using IrfanView Thumbnails. So I'm doing:
exiftool "-filename<${caption-abstract}.jpg" IMG_*.jpg
Unfortunately I end up with the following files: "Zach Smithee", "Troy Calviness.jpg" So, in one case, the extension does not properly get set. As a test, I also did:
exiftool "-filename<${caption-abstract}.%e" IMG_*.jpg
Exact same results. When I run exiftool against the files to just dump the contents, I see no linefeeds in Zach's photo. When I look at their IPTC Information in IrfanView Thumbnails, I see no linefeeds. Tested in Linux w/ 7.30 and ugh, of course, no problems. Any ideas why Windows is sucking? Thanks!! --Darryl
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