ROTATE(1)

💫 ROTATE — the manual, but make it cute 💫

okay bestie, welcome to rotate(1) from the General Commands Manual section 🎀 this is the glow-up guide for your JPEGs and i'm gonna hold your hand thru every single flag, no cap 💅

✨ NAME ✨

rotate — rotate, mirror, and transpose JPEG images, and it does it losslessly whenever possible 🦋✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rotate { options } file [ file ... ]

one program, a bunch of options, and then as many files as your little heart desires 💖

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea: rotate is a convenience frontend to jpegtran 🫶 it lets your JPEG images get rotated, mirrored, or transposed in several different ways, and it's genuinely iconic for that.

the way these operations work is losslessly — meaning there's no image recompression happening, your pixels stay exactly as they were, periodt 🔥 and on top of that, all your EXIF metadata stays intact 🙈💖 nothing gets lost, nothing gets degraded, we love a clean operation.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here come the flags, bestie, and there's a specific set of values each one wants. read carefully, it's giving "choose your own adventure" 💫

• -f, -flip, --flip {horizontal | vertical} — mirror time 🪞 pick your axis:
  • horizontal: mirror the image horizontally (left-right).
  • vertical: mirror the image vertically (top-bottom).
• -r, -rotate, --rotate {90 | 180 | 270} — the spin cycle 🔄 pick your angle:
  • 90: rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise.
  • 180: rotate the image 180 degrees.
  • 270: rotate the image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw, same vibe, different direction 💅).
• -tp, -transpose, --transpose — transpose the image (across the UL-to-LR axis) 🦋
• -tv, -transverse, --transverse] — transverse transpose (across the UR-to-LL axis) ⭐

yes bestie, that last one is written --transverse] with a bracket in it and i am NOT fixing it, i am reporting it faithfully like a good little manual 💀

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

jpegtran(1) — the actual powerhouse underneath, go say hi 💜

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

rotate is distributed as a component of jigl, written by Jason Paul <jigl@xome.net> 🌸 the project page lives at http://xome.net/projects/jigl/ — go visit, it's the origin story.

this manual page was adapted from the program help text by Nicholas Breen <nbreen@ofb.net> for the Debian project (but may be used by others, so share the love, we're not gatekeeping 🎀).

and that's the whole page, babe 💅 this one's dated October 8, 2006, and it comes to you straight from the General Commands Manual section — go rotate something iconic, you got this 👑💖