I started working on this, but didn't get too far before I was overcome with the vast number of possibilities. I'd favor lots of generously explained examples which are structured in a helpful way so I am not confused by the mass of examples. So in the end, the simple examples may be counterproductive. But I have found that MANY people run exiftool multiple times because they do not realize that you can do more than one thing at once. I agree, and this is why most of my examples are simple and do just one thing. Any commands discussed here which do multiple things in one line I experience as counterproductive as they confuse me too much. I tried approaching it from this angle, but the problem is that reading through examples to list all possible common uses of exiftool would take more time than reading the full documentation. I personally always look for examples which come close to my situation and then from the example look backwards to the abstract command help to try to figure out what happens. Hence, ExifTool is software for desperate users. You can bet he dumps the thing immediately if he's not desperate. The best thing to stop a user from using an application is always telling him "read the fucking manual" only once.
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