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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: tommy on May 16, 2010, 06:54:38 AM

Title: How to add meta data to many jpgs at once?
Post by: tommy on May 16, 2010, 06:54:38 AM

I am wondering how possible is it to add a copyright message to many jpgs at the same time instead of manually adding to each one, which takes forever because I have alot of images.

I'm using exiftool in terminal on Ubuntu.

Any help would be great, thanks.
Title: Re: How to add meta data to many jpgs at once?
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 16, 2010, 06:58:11 AM
This is a very basic ExifTool feature.  Specify a directory name instead of a file name to add the information to all files in the directory.  And add the -r option to also process files in sub-directories.  For example:

exiftool -r -copyright="Phil Harvey" ~/images

- Phil
Title: Re: How to add meta data to many jpgs at once?
Post by: tommy on May 16, 2010, 07:21:54 AM
Thanks so much.
Title: Re: How to add meta data to many jpgs at once?
Post by: tommy on May 16, 2010, 08:12:16 AM
I was just wondering now, is there a way to stop it making an extra copy of each image ?
Title: Re: How to add meta data to many jpgs at once?
Post by: Phil Harvey on May 17, 2010, 07:29:49 AM
The -overwrite_original option will do this.

- Phil