metacam(1)

✨ metacam(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is metacam — the manual page for it, and the whole vibe is extract EXIF information from digital camera files. yes. that's the entire personality and honestly? iconic. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

metacam — extract EXIF information from digital camera files 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

metacam [-v|-a|-x] [FILE]...

that's it. that's the whole incantation. give it files, get lore back. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so like, metacam supports all standard EXIF fields, no cap, plus the (known) vendor specific blocks from Nikon, Olympus, Canon and Casio. your camera's secret diary? unlocked. 🔓💀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — spits out the help info and dips. output help information and exit. the "just tell me what you do" button 🫶
• -v, --verbose — output unknown tags too. like, the tags nobody even knows about? yeah, those get printed now. nosy in the best way 🔍
• -a, --all — output ALL tags. capital-A ALL, bestie. and heads up: it implies -v, so you get the unknown ones too. it's giving completionist 👑
• -x, --xml — output as XML. structured. tidy. machine-readable. very main character 💻✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

metacam was developed by Daniel Stephens <daniel@cheeseplant.org>. 👑

This manual page was written by Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>, Jarno Elonen <elonen@debian.org> and Juan Angulo Moreno <juan@apuntale.com> for Debian project (but may be used by others). look at them, the founding mothers and fathers of this documentation, we stan 🫶

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie!! this was metacam version 1.2, dated 4 Sep 2007 — yes we're in our vintage era and it still eats 💖✨ no cap, go read your camera's metadata, mwah 🎀🦋