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KMDItemImageDirection = 310.9829545454546Īs you can see, quite a huge amount of data is produced from the command, far more than you want, I’m betting! KMDItemContentModificationDate = 15:19:49 +0000 Here’s what I see when I use “mdls” on a photo sitting on my desktop: $ mdls IMG_1331.JPG Generally it’s required special third party open source programs to access EXIF information on photos from the command line, but Mac OS X includes a slick utility called “mdls” (which stands for metadata-ls). EXIF, in fact, stands for “EXchangeable Image Format”, if you’re curious. □Īs you already know, photos taken by modern cameras (and cell phones) embed extra information including film speed, lens size, date, time, geographic location of the photo and many other items of data. Yeah, I’ve been exploring shell scripts for a long time now, so I’m the perfect person to ask. Not to mention that I write a column on shell script programming for Linux Journal and am the author of the best selling Wicked Cool Shell Scripts for NoStarch Press. Ah, what a refreshing question! I’ve been writing shell scripts for so long that it’s burned into my brain.
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