EXIF Matadata – manage with EXIFTOOL

Search for certain tags in a directory of images (e.g. – Canon):
Find all instances with a “Canon” tag in the EXIF data for all images in current path:

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exiftool * | grep Canon

Set ‘Artist’ tag to *empty* for all images in current path:

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exiftool -Artist= *

Set ‘Copyright’ tag to *empty* for filename image.jpg:

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exiftool -Copyright= image.jpg

Add ‘Copyright=Bob Smith’ to all ‘jpg’ images in current path:

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exiftool -Copyright="Bob Smith" *.jpg

Source / Reference: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce/Remove-EXIF-Metadata-from-Photos-with-exiftool