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exiftools - manage exif through command line

Installation

sudo apt install libimage-exiftool-perl

Documentation

  • https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
  • https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/faq.html

Copy exif tags

exiftool -TagsFromFile fromImage.jpg toImage.jpg

If you don't want to copy the orientation field, then run:

exiftool -TagsFromFile a.crw --Orientation a.jpg

See https://sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/faq.html#Q8 for more details.