Need to remove some characters from result

[tlm2408]

This is running from a batch file in Windows.

exiftool.exe -api filter="s/ \(approx\)//" -AudioBitrate -FileName -Directory -Comment -Artist -Title -Album -Duration -j -r -ext mp3 -ext flac -progress "C:\Audio" >>"MusicSearch temp.js"

This is all working great.
At the moment -Directory is returning a full path as it should eg:

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C:/Audio/Artist/Album....
I need to loose the C:/Audio/ part, so that I end up with Artist/Album...

Is this possible?

Also not so important, but I would like to change each "/" to " - "

Any help is greatly apprieciated

[Stephen Marsh]

I am not understanding 100%...

The regex should be simple enough

/^C:\/Audio\///


;s/^C:\/Audio\///


However I doubt that the syntax is correct...

Similar for the forward slashes to hyphens:

/\//-/g

However again, what I am not understanding probably invalidates what I just wrote!

Looking forward to see what the answer really is!

[StarGeek]

You pretty much have it, Stephen, though I probably would use tr/\//-/ instead, not that savings would be that measurable.

The question is whether replacing slashes is going to have an affect on any of the other tags.  For example, AC/DC would become AC-DC and Love Without Tragedy / Mother Mary by Rihanna would become Love Without Tragedy - Mother Mary.  This could be solved using the hashtag # option of the -n option

So, I'd say try this out and see if it needs refining:
exiftool.exe -api filter="s/ \(approx\)//;s/^C:\/Audio\///;tr/\//-/" -AudioBitrate -FileName -Directory -Comment# -Artist# -Title# -Album# -Duration -j -r -ext mp3 -ext flac -progress "C:\Audio" >>"MusicSearch temp.js"

[Stephen Marsh]

Thanks StarGeek! As I said, the syntax would have killed me – not the regex itself so much, but tying the regex it into the full command. I thought that one would need to link the regex directly to the Directory tag, rather than in the expression before the tags.

[tlm2408]

Thank you for your time guys. Thank you StarGeek that works great, I'm gonna have to learn regex I think