tag from filename on Windows and Linux

[wrandyr]

I want to batch write a text string plus a file's name to an IPTC tag. This command works for me in Windows:

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exiftool "-IPTC:source<Disc 1_$filename" *.tif

Trying to do the same thing in Linux fails, unless the file name is the only thing written. So this works

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exiftool "-IPTC:source<filename" .
but I could not come up with anything that would write the two things together.

Does anyone know the cross-OS trick to do this?

[Phil Harvey]

In Linux you need to use single quotes instead of double quotes around arguments containing a '$' symbol.

- Phil

[wrandyr]

Thank you, that is exactly the missing piece I needed.