Well, you're going to make a script (or at least a for loop) do all the work, right? Might as well make it copy and then delete the file... or make a symlink... On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Ryan Coleman wrote: > I’m trying to get exiv2 to do XMP IPTC updates to images. I know I can do this with the following command (read from a file): > >> exiv2 -i X filename.JPG > requires having filename.xmp to reference. > > But the script is going to do this 200 to 300 times in a folder, maybe more, and it would make more sense to have 1 file it references. Is that possible? > > Any thoughts? I can create and delete the file (copy/delete, really) each time but I’d prefer to avoid that. > > Thanks, > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >