Tagging images with Feh

Here's what I use to tag jpg images with exiv2 and dmenu, using Exif.Photo.UserComment and Iptc.Application2.Keywords:

Install dmenu and exiv2

The shell-script image-metadata.sh does the actual work, we tell feh to use it for two actions and the info:

• edit-comment and
• edit-tags.
• show for --info

I put the following into my .bashrc

..bashrc

alias feh="feh --action1 ;"image-metadata.sh edit-comment %f" --action2 ;"image-metadata.sh edit-tags %f" --info "image-metadata.sh show %f" "

p. The file @image-metadata.sh@ is as follows:

.image-metadata.sh

#!/bin/bash if [ $# -lt 2 ] then echo -e usage: "$0 \n actions: edit-comment, edit-tags" exit -1 fi

action=$1 file=$2

if [ "$action" == "edit-comment" ] then commentText=$(echo | dmenu -t "$(exiv2 -Pt -g Exif.Photo.UserComment $file)") if [ $? -ne 1 ] # not aborted then if [ -z "$commentText" ] then exiv2 -M"del Exif.Photo.UserComment" $file else exiv2 -M"set Exif.Photo.UserComment $commentText" $file fi fi fi

if [ "$action" == "edit-tags" ] then exiv2 -Pt -g Iptc.Application2.Keywords $file > /tmp/._image_keywords.txt

selection=$(exiv2 -Pt -g Iptc.Application2.Keywords $file | dmenu -l 10)
if [ -n "$selection" ] 
then
exiv2 -M "del Iptc.Application2.Keywords" $file
while read keyword
do
    if [ "$selection" != "$keyword" ]
    then
	exiv2 -M "add Iptc.Application2.Keywords String $keyword" $file
    else
	deleted=true
    fi
done < /tmp/._image_keywords.txt

if [ -z $deleted ]
then
    exiv2 -M "add Iptc.Application2.Keywords String $selection" $file
fi
fi
rm /tmp/._image_keywords.txt

fi if [ "$action" == "show" ] then comment=$(exiv2 -Pt -g Exif.Photo.UserComment $file) exiv2 -Pt -g Iptc.Application2.Keywords $file > /tmp/._image_keywords.txt echo -n Comment: $comment, "Keywords: " first=true while read keyword do if [ $first == "false" ] then echo -n ", " fi echo -n $keyword first="false" done < /tmp/._image_keywords.txt echo rm /tmp/._image_keywords.txt fi