how to write caption-abstract from filename less file extension

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[Originally posted by edh on 2007-12-13 20:51:18-08]

I am using the command line exiftool for windows.  I am able to successfully write the filename to the EXIF IPTC caption area with this command:

Code:

exiftool -overwrite_original -P "-iptc:caption-abstract<filename" "-iptc:writer-editor=Ed H" *.jpg

This is close to my goal, but what I would really like is to write the filename less the extension.  The command above leaves .JPG on the end of my captions, and I would like filename sans extension.

I have tried the following with no luck:

Code:

exiftool -overwrite_original -P "-iptc:caption-abstract<basename" *.jpg
exiftool -overwrite_original -P "-iptc:caption-abstract<%f" *.jpg

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-12-14 12:06:15-08]

Take a look at the
user-defined
tag documentation.  The sample config file defines the Basename
tag that you wanted (in the Composite tags).

- Phil

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[Originally posted by edh on 2007-12-14 23:32:18-08]

Hi again Phil,

OK, nifty, I thought I had to recompile to use that file, but I guess not.  So I copied https://exiftool.org/config.html  user-defined tag documentation to my system, renamed it to .ExifTool_config  created an environment variable EXIFTOOL_HOME that points at C:\Program Files\exiftool (where I put exiftool.exe).  Then tried this command

Code:

exiftool -overwrite_original -P "-iptc:caption-abstract<Basename" "-iptc:writer-editor=Ed H" W*.jpg

Unfortunately, get this error:

Code:

Can't use string ("FileName") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at Image/ExifTool.pm line 1389, <EXIFTOOL_FILE> line 11.

Do I need to change anything else in the .ExifTool_config file?  Looks like it is a NameSpace issue?

Thanks!

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2007-12-15 01:42:34-08]

It sounds like there is a format error in your config file.
Instead of working from the html documentation, try using
the "ExifTool_config" file in the full exiftool distribution.

- Phil