It must be simple, however, I seem to be unable to find it in the documentation.
What I achieved:
exiftool -tagsfromfile @ "-description<title" test.jpg
exiftool -tagsfromfile @ "-description<country" test.jpg
Hence, I have either the title or the country in description. What I really want is a special description for Google+ consisting of
Description = Title, Country (Creator) ( including, and () )
I already fail at the next step:
exiftool -tagsfromfile @ "-description<title" "-description<country" test.jpg
exiftool -tagsfromfile @ "-description+<title" "-description+<country" test.jpg
exiftool -addtagsfromfile @ "-description<title" "-description<country" test.jpg
exiftool -addtagsfromfile @ "-description+<title" "-description+<country" test.jpg
Could you please point me in the right direction - doc or examples?
From the -tagsFromFile documentation (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#item__2dtagsfromfile_srcfile_or_fmt):
"An extension of the redirection feature allows strings involving
tag names to be used on the right hand side of the "<" symbol with
the syntax "'-DSTTAG<STR'", where tag names in STR are prefixed
with a "$" symbol. See the -p option for more details about this
syntax. Strings starting with a "=" sign must insert a single
space after the "<" to avoid confusion with the "<=" syntax which
would otherwise attempt to set the tag value from the contents of
a file. A single space at the start of the string is removed if
it exists, but all other whitespace is preserved."
So something like this is what you want:
exiftool "-description<$title, $country ($creator)" test.jpg
(use double quotes as above in Windows, or single quotes on Mac/Linux)
Note that -tagsfromfile @ is implied when you copy tags with "<", so you can save some typing by leaving this out.
There is a similar example which sets Comment from EXIF:ISO and ShutterSpeed in the COPYING EXAMPLES (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#copying_examples) .
- Phil
Thank you very much!
I already tried $ earlier and received an error. However, you provided the solution: Single Quotes on Mac!