Yeah, that’s what I would do in an ideal world… but this is being attached to an upload script in PureFTPd so it’s called on demand. I’d prefer to not burn up the disk IO resources on those read/writes if I can avoid it, ya know? > On Aug 1, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Clug <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list