T (-table) Output tag values in table form

[lonny]

Mac OS X 10.6.3, Intel, exiftool 8.20

I am using "exiftool -T -a /path/to/image/directory/ > ~/Desktop/text.txt" to create a tab-delimited table-form text file which contains meta information from each image within a directory of images. This works perfectly. However, the columns do not have labels showing what tag name each value represents. Is there a way to print the tag name at the top of each column?
instead of this:
8.1   IMG_0070.JPG   /Volumes/tempbox/mvardaro/FFWV Feb2010   1488 kB   2009:08:08 20:58:24-07:00   rwxrwxrwx   JPEG

you should get this:
ExifTool Version Number   File Name   Directory   File Size   File Modification Date/Time   File Permissions   File Type
8.1   IMG_0070.JPG   /Volumes/tempbox/mvardaro/FFWV Feb2010   1488 kB   2009:08:08 20:58:24-07:00   rwxrwxrwx   JPEG   

[Phil Harvey]

There is no way to do this when extracting all tags from a file because the extracted tags will be different for each file.  To have the same tag in each column you need to decide on a specific set of tags to extract then do something like this:  (Note: The following echo command works in a bash shell, but the technique to get tabs in other shells may be different.)

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echo -e "ExifTool Version Number\tFile Name\tDirectory\tFile Size\tFile Modification Date/Time\tFile Permissions\tFile Type" > out.txt
exiftool -exiftoolversion -filename -directory -filesize -filemodifydate -filepermissions -filetype -T /path/to/image/directory >> out.txt


- Phil