anyone know how to use the linux based exif or exiftool ?

[darb]

it is giving me a headache ... it has a man page, syntax, usage ... but none of it actually gives you an example of how to specify which tag, IFD you want to modify etc!

Anyone used it?

am now playing with jhead isntead ... may have to revert to some win32 based exif editior, yuck

[Glen]

Brad, MHD uses linux

[radar]

Hi Dard,

am now playing with jhead isntead ... may have to revert to some win32 based exif editior, yuck

Oh no, don't do that

See this FAQ for exiftool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/faq.html

then if you do the command:
exiftool -a -G1 dsc_xxxx.nnn

you will get the various group names and values, etc. You can then do:
exiftool -groupname:fieldname=4 dsc_xxxx.nnn

Replace groupname and fieldname with the ones you need changing, not e that it will only change the fields that it is "allowed" to, so if you would try to change aperture, it would not let you do it. As an example that works, I modified the user comment tag in my file with:


exiftool -UserComment=abc dsc_0001.nef

If you want a string with spaces, put it in "" such as:

exiftool -UserComment="Some testing" dsc_0001.nef

Note that above, I haven't used the group name, just the tagname, if you use:

exiftool -S dsc_nnnn.xxx

it will list the actual tag name, so you don't actually need to look up the tag name somewhere else.

Hope this keeps you firmly in Linux


HTH,

Radar

[darb]

champion, i will try this tommorow.

Thankyou very much. I couldnt find a faq or actual usage example anywhere !