Exiftool -Artist Output without FileSource

[Garrett]

Using the following code:

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C:\exiftool.exe -Artist Dir

Provides the following output:

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======== E:/File1.jpg
Artist                          : username1
======== E:/File2.jpg
Artist                          : username2
    1 directories scanned
    2 image files read

Ideally the output would look like:

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username1_username2

or

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username1
username2

Does anyone know some options to remove the SourceFile from the output?

[StarGeek]

Try
exiftool -q -s3 -Artist DIR

[Garrett]

@StarGeek - thank you sir! You have provided assistance for this project on stackoverflow as well, thanks for the support!

Can you take this one step further and explain how -s3 works? I see that -s[NUM]     (-short)  = Short output format but don't understand the number system.

Thanks again!

[StarGeek]

Heh, skipping between your question here and on stackexchange.

From the docs on the -s option:

-s1 or -s        - print tag names instead of descriptions

Normally, exiftool will print the description of the tag rather than the tag name.  Most of the time it's just a case of removing the spaces to get the tag name, e.g. "Image Description" vs "ImageDescription".  But sometimes there's more of a difference, such as the Composite "Create Date" description vs. the actual tag name of "SubSecCreateDate".

-s2 or -s -s     - no extra spaces to column-align values

This removes the extra spaces that usually try to make the output look nicer in addition to the above setting:
Create Date                     : 2002:02:02 02:02:02+04:00
vs
SubSecCreateDate: 2002:02:02 02:02:02+04:00

-s3 or -s -s -s  - print values only (no tag names)

Removes the tag names altogether, just the tag output.
2002:02:02 02:02:02+04:00