Recently I was writing up my camping trip to Dartmoor and I wanted to transfer some photos from my phone to my computer.
A quick note on that first: since my phone is Android I have to use Media Transfer Protocol to transfer files.
There are a bunch of options to do so but I’ve found that simple-mtpfs is the easiest to use and doesn’t seem to go wrong.
To use it you simply plug in the USB cable with the phone attached, run simple-mtpfs <mountpoint>
, and voilà, you can now transfer files back and forth between devices.
To unmount just run fusermount -u <mountpoint>
.
Two commands you can use to view the metadata of image files are file
and identify
.
The former can be used on any file type while the latter is specific to image files.
For the latter you can use either identify <filename>
on its own to get all of the image’s associated metadata, or you can use, for example, identify -format "%w %h" <filename>
to get just the dimensions of the image.