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ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files.

Linux Installation
Download the latest version from the ExifTool homepage:

cd /extra/src
wget http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-7.52.tar.gz
tar zxvf Image-ExifTool-7.52.tar.gz
cd Image-ExifTool-7.52

Install the Image::ExifTool package to make it available for use by other Perl scripts:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Copy the ExifToolb binary to /usr/local/bin:
cp exiftool /usr/local/bin/