How do I add short tag names as column headers (first row) in metadata returned in tabular format?
exiftool -T [DIR]
This should work as long as you don't have too many files in the directory:
exiftool -csv DIR
but will use a comma separator instead of tabs.
- Phil
The alternative if you really need tabs, would be to use the -p (-printFormat) option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#p-FMTFILE-or-STR--printFormat). It would be a bit more complicated, though.
-csv works for what I need, but thanks for the tip on the -p (-printFormat) option as well.