> exiftool -Orientation=6 -n a.jpg -o OUTFILE or FMT ( -out) This option also disables the inverse print conversion when writing, so the following two commands have the same effect: > exiftool -Orientation='Rotate 90 CW' a.jpg Option Summary -TAG or -TAG Extract or exclude specified tag

Note that multiple single-character options may NOT be combined into one argument because this would be interpreted as a tag name. Many single-character options have equivalent long-name versions (shown in brackets), and some options have inverses which are invoked with a leading double-dash. OPTIONSĬase is not significant for any command-line option (including tag and group names), except for single-character options when the corresponding upper-case option is defined. However, a filename may be specified or the -ext option may be used to force processing of files with any extension. Note: If FILE is a directory name, then only file types with recognized extensions are processed when reading, and only writable types are processed when any tag is written. | -ĪRW r JPEG r/w RA r | Photoshop IRB r/w/c (Be sure to verify that the new file is OK before erasing the original.) Once in write mode, exiftool will ignore any read-specific options.īelow is a list of file types and meta information formats currently supported by ExifTool (r = read, w = write, c = create): File Types | Meta Information This causes FILE to be rewritten, and by default the original file is preserved with _original appended to the file name. To write or copy information, new values are specified with the - TAG= syntax or the -tagsFromFile or -geotag options.

Information is read from the source file and output in readable form to the console (or written to an output text file with the -w option). FILE is a source file name, directory name, or - for the standard input. DESCRIPTIONĪ command-line interface to Image::ExifTool, used for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video files. Exiftool - Read and write meta information in files SYNOPSISĮxiftool FILE.Įxiftool - TAG.] FILE.Įxiftool | d| x] ]įor specific examples, see the EXAMPLES sections below.

Exiftool examples