removing .jpg from the description

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[Originally posted by andoid on 2009-04-12 22:34:04-07]

I am using: exiftool "-IPTC:Caption-Abstract<filename" *.jpg
Is there away to prevent the .jpg from being copied to the caption?
For example: I want to give the file "Jenn at the Lake.jpg" the caption "Jenn at the Lake" for use in Picasa.

Is there a way to do this?
Thank you very much,
Andoid

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-04-12 23:54:24-07]

Hi Andoid,

This is exactly what the BaseName tag does in the example user-defined
tags of the sample config file.  See the
https://exiftool.org/config.html" target="_blank">config
file documentation for details.  The sample config file comes with
the full exiftool distribution.

Let me know if you have any problems with this.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by andoid on 2009-04-13 02:27:02-07]

Phil,

Thank you for your quick response.  That information helps and is encouraging.  I don't have any perl experience.  I am assuming I can just copy the config file into my home directory and modify my .bat file.  Can you give me an example of how I would use the BaseName tag to remove the ".jpg" extension when copying the filename to the metadata.  I am using exiftool.exe (without the -k, 7.13) on windows and the contents of my batch file is: exiftool "-IPTC:Caption-Abstract<filename" *.jpg

Thanks so much,
Andoid

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-04-13 10:56:13-07]

Hi Andoid,

You just copy the file to your home directory or the
directory containing exiftool and rename it to ".ExifTool_config".

Then the command line is

Code:

exiftool "-iptc:caption-abstract<basename" FILE

- Phil

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[Originally posted by andoid on 2009-04-13 15:01:49-07]

Phil,

Thanks for all your help.  Exiftool is an awesome tool and did exactly what I needed it to.  It resolved the shortcoming of Google's Picasa!!!

This is the line I ended up using: exiftool "-iptc:caption-abstract<basename" -r -ext .jpg *

Thanks again,
Andoid