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To avoid that and modify files directly, use the -overwrite_original option.

ExifTool creates a copy of the original file, appending _original to the file name, as a backup.

Especially when using wildcards, *.jpg is not the same as *.JPG.

Remember that extensions and filenames are case sensitive on Linux.

Here is how to add standard copyright information to a file:Įxiftool -rights="Copyright" -CopyrightNotice="Copyright" "file name.extension"īatch metadata editing: Replace the file name with a directory name to modify all files in a directory. The options -EXIF:Copyright and -copyright produce disappointing results in terms of compatibility with standard image managers on Linux. The -CopyrightNotice option also works reliably and populates the ITPC CopyrightNotice field. More details: the -rights option seems to be a shorthand for -XMP-dc:Rights, and definitely a better solution than using the -copyright option, which doesn’t seem to produce readable results by gThumb and Gnome Image Viewer.

Add copyright information to image metadata on Linux Copyright Notice and XMP RightsĪfter trying out a lot of metadata tags and testing the results, I recommend using both the -rights and -CopyrightNotice with identical content for copyright information. Metadata information can also be exported to an html document:Įxiftool -h. You can easily package this into a shell function and store in your. So this solution basically copies the file, creates a file at a given point in time, then copies your original file's contents into the created empty file. In addition, the formatting is tricker for SetFile, which does not use ISO Standard date/time formatting.) If that works for you, fine, but I have a lot of scanned photographs and PDF documents from before 1970, and touch will set creation dates outside of the UNIX Epoch, back to 1900. (Why use touch when there are good examples here using SetFile? Well, the dates used by SetFile must be in the "Unix Epoch," which means they must be between -18.

The basic system commands don't really want you messing with the creation date, because, well, it is the creation date, which should really be considered immutable! # cat TempFileName.jpeg > OriginalFileName.jpeg

And for something totally different that uses only basic commands, you can do this: # mv OriginalFileName.jpeg TempFileName.jpeg