Changing the exif data of a photo in the Linux terminal

The following tutorial describes how, using the console, we can edit the exif photo data.

First, we install the necessary exif-tool packages:

Adminer:

We go to the directory with our photo and to see the current exif data we issue the command in the console:

image.jpg is replaced by the name of our photo

To change the author of the photo, for example, we issue a command:

If we want to change both the author and the title of the photo, we issue a command:

There are many more options available in the exiftool manual, so be sure to check them out.