How to add meta data to many jpgs at once?

[tommy]

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.

[Phil Harvey]

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

[tommy]

Thanks so much.

[tommy]

I was just wondering now, is there a way to stop it making an extra copy of each image ?

[Phil Harvey]

The -overwrite_original option will do this.

- Phil