exiftool

Read and write meta information in files. More information: https://exiftool.org.

• Print the EXIF metadata for a given file:

exiftool path/to/file

• Remove all EXIF metadata from the given files:

exiftool -All= path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

• Remove GPS EXIF metadata from given image files:

exiftool "-gps*=" path/to/image1 path/to/image2 ...

• Remove all EXIF metadata from the given image files, then re-add metadata for color and orientation:

exiftool -All= -tagsfromfile @ -colorspacetags -orientation path/to/image1 path/to/image2 ...

• Move the date at which all photos in a directory were taken 1 hour forward:

exiftool "-AllDates+=0:0:0 1:0:0" path/to/directory

• Move the date at which all JPEG photos in the current directory were taken 1 day and 2 hours backward:

exiftool "-AllDates-=0:0:1 2:0:0" -ext jpg

• Only change the DateTimeOriginal field subtracting 1.5 hours, without keeping backups:

exiftool -DateTimeOriginal-=1.5 -overwrite_original

• Recursively rename all JPEG photos in a directory based on the DateTimeOriginal field:

exiftool '-filename<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S%%lc.%%e path/to/directory -r -ext jpg