Getting all the EXIF info from a command line?

[Scottes]

Does anyone know of a good util that will extract ALL of the EXIF data? The only one I've found so far is Exifer, but I would love to do this on the command line.

Windows command line, Linux/Unix, or Perl are all possibilities. Most of the ones I've tried give a LOT of "Unknown Data" even if they say they support the Maker-stuff from Canon. I'm kinda getting tired of writing Perl scripts just to watch them fail.

Anyone?

[pix0r]

Hey-

I've been meaning to learn about the possibilities of accessing EXIF data from the command line as well, so I just tried the Perl module Image::EXIF.

This simple perl script works fine (mostly taken from the CPAN Image::EXIF page)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Image::EXIF;
use Data::Dumper;

my $image = $ARGV[0];

my $exif = new Image::EXIF($image);
my $all_info = $exif->get_all_info();
print $exif->error ? $exif->errstr : Dumper($all_info);

To install the necessary modules, do (as root):

perl -MCPAN -e shell
.. install Image::EXIF
.. install Data::Dumper

in case you don't already have the modules.

This gives me a bunch of information, including aperture/shutter, white balance, focal length, exposure bias, .... with my S45.

Hope this helps

[4walls]

Try this... http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/

[Scottes]

jhead produces very little info. It outputs the most important stuff, but I wanted to dig into the details.

And Image::EXIF chokes on both my cygwin and ActiveState Perl builds on my Windows box. Bummer. I really don't want to copy 9 gigs of images to my Linux box.

Still looking....


But thanks, guys, I do appreciate the help.

[iwatkins]

Can't vouch for it, but this looks like it would do the job: http://www.hugsan.com/EXIFutils/

Cheers

Ian

[Scottes]

Thanks Ian. That does just about everything it seems.

It's not perfect - it spews some errors on every file (expected integer, got string), and has a number of "unknown field" entries. But it does display all the fields from what I can tell.

Thanks!