print common metadata

exiftool -common image.jpg Or store it in a file for processing: exiftool -common -csv image.jpg > out.csv

original capture time for raw photos

exiftool -DateTimeOriginal -csv *.RAF

set file modification time to capture time

exiftool '-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal' dir

move pictures from DIR to organized tree by date

Putting the FileModifyDate tag before DateTimeOriginal causes it to "fallback" to FileModifyDate if DateTimeOriginal is missing. exiftool '-Directory<FileModifyDate' '-Directory<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y/%m/%d DIR Copy instead of move: exiftool -o . '-Directory<FileModifyDate' '-Directory<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y/%m/%d DIR

rename the files based on their date

exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.%%e" DIR

set dates from filename

https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q5 https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=8456.0 Exiftool is briliant at detecting if a filename contains a date so most of the time this should work: exiftool '-alldates<filename' Basically, if the date occurs (with any seperators/prefix/sufix) in this loose format YYYYmmddHHMMSS it should work.

If you want to set the minutes and seconds to 00:00 you can use this: exiftool "-datetimeoriginal<${filename;$_=substr($_,0,13)} 00:00" DIR

strip metadata

Some image files are not fully supported and thus ALL metadata cannot be removed, for more common types it does a good job. exiftool -all= image.jpeg

list all pictures with a certain tag

This lists all pictures taken with a Fuji camera. exiftool -Make -q -p '$directory/$filename' -r -if '$Make =~ /FUJIFILM/' dir