Appending folder name to author metadata for PDF

[Hiryu]

I tried this in the terminal

echo "${PWD##*/}"

this gives me the exact folder name where the pdf (that I want to process) is residing.

so how would I integrate that and make author as the result of ${PWD##*/}?  That would be exactly what I want.  Please help!  Thanks -- and thank you for all your help thus far.

[Phil Harvey]

OK, the exact command is:

exiftool '-PDF:Title<${filename;s/\..*?$//}' '-XMP-dc:Title<${filename;s/\..*?$//}' '-author<${directory;s(.*/)()}' /Users/HX/Dropbox/ResearchJournal/Research1/research12.pdf

With the absolute path (starts with a "/"), the working directory doesn't matter, so this command should work from any directory.

- Phil

P.S. I've moved this thread to the Newbies forum because it fits in best there.

[Hiryu]

Hey Phil -- I just tried it and nothing appeared in the author metadata tag when I open up the pdf in preview and look at tools -- show inspector (after running the command, of course)


Is there anyway to set author to "${PWD##*/}" (the current directory of the pdf on which the script is being applied to)?