createPhotoWebPages.pl - Options

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Quite a number of options are available for createPhotoWebPages.pl. They control the way the script processes images and HTML pages. The actual appearance of the HTML pages is mainly determined by the configuration file entries.

The options can be partitioned into four groups:

Execution of createPhotoWebPages.pl

The script is executed as follows:
createPhotoWebPages.pl [Options] Configurationfilename [Pathnames]
"Configurationfilename" is the name of the configuration file. The "path names" are only required when using the "-scan"-Option and are considered a user error in all other cases.

The options are described in more detail in the following sections. Note that there is a long descriptive format as well as a single letter abbreviation available for each option.

General Options

These are all options which may be given at any time (altough they might not do anything in some situations).

Program Options

These are the main operating options which define the working mode of the script. Several of these options may be combined. If none of these options is given then the script automatically assumes the option combination "-images -html".

The following options may only be used in combination with certain main options.

Sort Options

The sort options may only be used in conjunction with the image scan mode ("-scan" option). If no sort option is given then the order of the images in the configuration file reflects the order in which the image files are found in the course of the scan operation.

Note:
After images have been downloaded from a digital camera they can normally be easily processed with the "name" variant. The alphanumeric names of the images do already reflect the date/time information in their file name (many cameras even allow to influence the naming style).
The "date" variant is mostly interesting if images from different cameras or image series should be brought into a date/time context. It is, however, a prerequisite that the "Date/Time" EXIF entry exists and contains useful information.
The usage of the "date" variant also implies the usage of the "jhead" utility program.

Rename Options

All rename options do only work in connection with the rename mode ("-rename" option). The prefix option ("-prefix") may also be used in combination with the image scan mode ("-scan" option).

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