

The default output shows tag descriptions and their readably formatted values. This simplest exiftool invocation that dumps all EXIF data for the file.


All of these examples work on a Unix shell environment like ZSH on MacOS or the various Linux shells. I’m writing this down because I often spend a lot of time reading through exiftool documentation to find out how to get something done, just to forget it within hours. exiftool is a command-line utility that provides very powerful EXIF reading, writing and searching capabilities. Following is a collection of real exiftool commands that I’ve used, along with explanations of what each does.
