It should return the version number for your installation of Exiftool. One gotcha with Automator's Run Shell Script action is that you will almost certainly need to change the "Pass input" pull-down from the default "to stdin" to "as arguments".īefore getting fancy, try running this Automator workflow, matching all the settings to the screenshot: bin/ is for essential executable binaries, /usr/bin/ is for non-system critical, usr/local/bin/ is for binaries (like Exiftool) installed by the user. ('bin' is short for 'binaries' - as I understand it, /usr/bin contains 'essential' ones required by the operating system, /usr/local/bin contains useful but not system-critical ones like scripting languages, and of course Exiftool itself.)ĮDIT: not quite. The change from 'bash' to 'zsh' in Catalina isn't relevant. Still haven't solved the problem though: Īutomator's Run Shell Script action defaults to /usr/bin/zsh, the default shell for MacOS 10.15, and you shouldn't need to change this. UPDATE: Yes, it seems that Catalina has changed things to do with this. Is it possible that the path has been altered for macOS Catalina? Full disclosure: I don't know what bins are, really.ĭoes it matter which one I choose? (I seem to get an error regardless of which I choose.) I'm not sure which bin I should be selecting from the dropdown. I too would like to use automator with exiftool commands.
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