vipsheader(1)

vipsheader1

Prints information about an image file

Usage

vipsheader [OPTIONS ...] files ...

Overview

vipsheader(1) prints image header fields to stdout.

Options

-a, --all

Show all fields. Fields are displayed to be convenient for humans to read, so binary data, for example, is summarized rather than simply printed.

-f FIELD, --field=FIELD

Print the value of FIELD from the image header. Fields are printed in a way suitable for programs to understand, so, for example, binary data is base64-encoded and printed as a stream of characters.

The special field name getext prints the VIPS extension block: the XML defining the image metadata. You can alter this, then reattach with vipsedit(1).

You can use multiple "-f" arguments to print the values of many fields.

Examples

$ vipsheader -f width ~/pics/*.v
1024
1279
22865
1
256

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 8–9
  2. 10–12
  3. 13–Arch

Author

N. Dessipris - 12/07/1990

From libvips 8.18.7-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.