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I have a shell script that deletes exif data from images.

I would like to right-click the folder with the images and execute the command from the context menu.
How can I do this?

The Shell script is:

exiftool -all= -overwrite_original test

where test is the dir with the images

Chealion
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If you're using Snow Leopard, you can create a Service, and it'll show up in a submenu of the contextual menu (as well as in the Services submenu of the Finder menu). To do this:

  1. Run /Applications/Automator.app
  2. Choose the Service template
  3. Set the Service Receives Selected pop-up (above the workflow column on the right) to "Files and Folders"
  4. Find the Run Shell Script action in the second column (the search field at the top can help), and drag it to the workflow column
  5. Set the action's Pass input: pop-up to "as arguments"

  6. In the template script that appears, replace echo "$f" with exiftool -all= -overwrite_original "$f" -- the script should now look like this:

    for f in "$@"
do
    exiftool -all= -overwrite_original "$f"
done

  7. Save the Service with some descriptive name

Gordon Davisson
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  • Excellent, thanks. I just wanted to add that in step #3, "Files and Folders" in "Finder.app" I also skipped the loop with [exiftool -all= -overwrite_original "$@"] – TunaFFish Nov 18 '10 at 08:04
  • For some reason, it didn't occur to me that exiftool might be able to take multiple files & folders. As for step 3, restricting the service to Finder.app doesn't really matter -- what other app do you select files & folders in? BTW, one limitation of this is that the Run Shell Script action doesn't do a very good job of error reporting, so if anything can go wrong, the script should take care of its own reporting. – Gordon Davisson Nov 18 '10 at 17:10