VIPSHEADER(1)

✨ VIPSHEADER ✨

okay bestie, welcome to VIPSHEADER(1) — the section 1 manual page for vipsheader, and she is that girl 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vipsheader — prints information about an image file 👑

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

vipsheader [OPTIONS ...] files ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

vipsheader(1) prints image header fields to stdout. That's it, that's the whole vibe. You hand her some files, she hands you back the receipts on what's inside their little heads 🧚

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -a, --all — shows you every single field. And the way these fields get displayed is for humans, okay, so like binary data gets summarized instead of just dumped raw at you. It's giving readable. It's giving considerate 🫶
• -f FIELD, --field=FIELD — prints the value of FIELD from the image header. But here's the tea: these fields come out in a way that's suitable for programs to understand, so for example binary data is base64-encoded and printed as a stream of characters. Machine-friendly, no cap 🤖✨

The special field name getext prints the VIPS extension block: the XML defining the image metadata. You can alter this, then reattach it with vipsedit(1). Iconic little metadata glow-up 💅

You can use multiple -f arguments to print the values of many fields. Stack 'em, bestie, she can handle it 🔥

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

$ vipsheader -f width ~/pics/*.v
1024
1279
22865
1
256

look at her go 😭✨ five files, five widths, zero drama.

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

vipsedit(1)

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

N. Dessipris

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

N. Dessipris - 12/07/1990

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this was VIPSHEADER(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 12 July 1990 — yeah she's vintage, she's an elder icon, and she still slays 💖 periodt 🦋