Add EXIF Metadata to Photos with a Bash One-Liner | Linux Today

Add EXIF Metadata to Photos with a Bash One-Liner

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Dmitri Popov
May 15, 2014

If you need to write EXIF data to multiple photos, a simple yet efficient Bash shell script might be a better tool for the job than the all-mighty digiKam.

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Dmitri Popov

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