String substitution in -XMP-crs:RAWFileName

[c++]

Hi Phil, not sure whether I'm being stupid or this is a bug we'll see...

I'm using exiftool in a makefile's

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.PHONY: run on an undetermined number of files. What breakes that are spaces and braces in filenames do I have a 'make prep' step to put placeholders in their stead and a 'make clean' step to remove 'em again. Not elegant but it works fine.

I was originally using 

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exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${directory}/$${filename},' ... but directory resolves to ./ in this use case and I need the full path to the file.

So I'm getting it in make by

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mkfile_path := $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))
mkfile_dir := $(dir $(mkfile_path))
and am then using

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exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$(MKFILE_DIR)$${filename}' ...
That gets me what's being processed below:

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<crs:RawFileName>/Volumes/Untitled/RAW/LEICA_sp@ce_X_sp@ce__o-br@ce_TYP_sp@ce_113_c-br@ce_.DNG</crs:RawFileName>

So much for the prelude...

Now what I figured I'd do was replace the placeholders with spaces and braces on the meta data again and I thought this may be the way:

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exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$(MKFILE_DIR)$${filename}' '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${XMP-crs:RAWFileName;s/_sp@ce_/ /g;s/_o-br@ce_/(/g;s/_c-br@ce_/)/g}'

What I get is puzzling me:

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<crs:RawFileName>L9600255.DNG</crs:RawFileName>
Where does that come from?

So, is it a bug or am I plainly being stupid ;-)

[Phil Harvey]

Let's take a step back and use the ExifTool "FilePath" tag to get the full path:

exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${filepath}' ...

Does that solve your problem(s)?  (I didn't read the 2nd half of your post)

- Phil

[c++]

Thanks Phil,

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exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${filepath}' ... was a good starting point as it simplifies what I had. Turned out that I really sought

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exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${filepath;s/_sp\@ce_/ /g;s/_o-br\@ce_/(/g;s/_c-br\@ce_/)/g}'
I hadn't escaped my @s before but also had misconceived something I think. I thought that I could write to a tag, in this case XMP-crs:RAWFileName and direcly thereafter pull its contents to edit like so:

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exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${filepath}' '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${XMP-crs:RAWFileName;s/_sp \@ce_/ /g;s/_o-br \@ce_/(/g;s/_c-br \@ce_/)/g}'
Turns out that doen't work. When I try that I still get the

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<crs:RawFileName>L9600255.DNG</crs:RawFileName> which was a puzzle before. I don't think this is a bug I think it comes from earlier in my processing sequence and since what you pointed me to works it's good enough for me. Thank you so much!

[Phil Harvey]

The right side of "<" always refers to the tags from the original image.  So I think you want this:

exiftool '-XMP-crs:RAWFileName<$${filepath;s/_sp \@ce_/ /g;s/_o-br \@ce_/(/g;s/_c-br \@ce_/)/g}' ...

- Phil