If you omit that option, then exiftool will back-up the originals by making a copy of them and adding “_original” to the end of the file names. The “-overwrite_original” option is necessary if you want to change the meta-data of the original images. If I wanted to change the dates on all the files in the “images” directory, I would do: exiftool -AllDates='2010:08:08 15:35:33' -overwrite_original images Now you are ready to start changing the meta-data of the images.įor example, if I wanted to change all the dates and times (DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate and ModifyDate) of the IMG_01.jpg file to the 8th of August 2010 at 3:35:33 PM I would do: exiftool -AllDates='2010:08:08 15:35:33' -overwrite_original IMG_01.jpg In terminal execute: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl You can also put different rules about what files and how you want to change them if you need to. It allows you to change individual files or whole bunch of them with one command. There is a very flexible and easy Linux tool that helps you change the EXIF meta-data of images.

Exiftool gui edit metadata