Question about using PowerShell Select-String, exiftool(-k)

Question

In a PowerShell script I\'m trying to filter the output of the exiftool(-k).exe command below, using Select-String.

I\'ve tried numerous

Answer 1

The naming is inconvenient. Rename it to exiftool.exe and run it without start-process.

rename-item 'exiftool(-k).exe' exiftool.exe    

C:\Users\bfbarton\PowerShell\exiftool.exe test-jpg | Select-String GPS 

Or

$env:path += ';C:\Users\bfbarton\PowerShell'
exiftool test.jpg | Select-String GPS

The website recommends to 'rename to "exiftool.exe" for command-line use'. https://exiftool.org . Even in unix, it wouldn't work without escaping the parentheses.

There's also the option of using the call operator. Using tab completion actually does this:

& '.\exiftool(-k).exe' test.jpg | select-string gps