header(1) - Linux man page

Name

header - prints information about an image file

Synopsis

header [OPTIONS ...] files ...

Description

header(1) prints image header fields to stdout.

Options

-f FIELD, --field=FIELD
Print value of FIELD from image header. The special field name getext prints the VIPS extension block: the XML defining the image metadata. You can alter this, then reattach with edvips(1).

Examples

pineapple:~/CVS/vips-7.12/src/iofuncs john$ header -f Xsize ~/pics/*.v
1024
1279
22865
1
256

See Also

im_intro(3), edvips(1), im_printdesc(3), im_header_get(3).

Copyright

N. Dessipris

Author

N. Dessipris - 12/07/1990

Referenced By

batch_crop(1), batch_image_convert(1), im_printhd(3), light_correct(1), vips(1)