Use path (stripped of delimiters) as keywords?

[TomM]

I did a search and couldn't find my question previously discussed, so I hope I'm not repeating a previous discussion.  If I am, I apologize and just point me to it.

I would like to replace some or all the non-text delimiters in the path to each file in a PM contact sheet and replace them with semi-colons so that the words in the path can be automatically be used as keywords.   For example:

c:\my_pix\toms\2013_09_11\autumn-trees\

should become

c; my; pix; toms; 2013; 09; 11; autumn; trees;

Even better would be if I could exclude certain sub-strings from the parsing, for example, "c:", "my_pix", "nef", etc. should all go to nulls or just a single space character.

It seems like code replacement might be made to work, but I can't figure out how to do this.

Another possibility would be to somehow pipe Photo Mechanic's {fpth} over to something like Unix's SED or AWK that uses regular expressions and then bring the result back into PM.  (ps - I'm doing this in a Windows system, but have numerous unix text utilities available on my system)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[TomM]

Err ... I forgot to specify that I'm using what I believe to be the latest build of PM for Win boxes:  v5-13915

This is an older computer I've dedicated to image ingest / archive / retrieval.  OS is Win Vista with a couple of SSDs, about 3 T of fast internal HD, and usually another couple of 3 T of external HDs usually attached.

T

[Kirk Baker]

There is currently no way to do this in Photo Mechanic.

-Kirk

[TomM]

Thank you, Kirk.  I appreciate your quick response, and I appreciate PM, which I have been using for years!

Cheers,

Tom M

[Hayo Baan]

Tom,

If you're not afraid of the command-line, I think you should be able to accomplish what you want using some of the tools you mentioned in combination with exiftool. Shouldn't be too hard either.

HTH,
Hayo