It is sometimes useful to see exif information in image files. If you want to examine exif information for an image then exiftool by Phil Harvey is excellent at doing this from the commandline. If you want to quickly examine exif from the internet then I have put together a small shell script which you can pass a url i.e. get_exif_info http://path/to/image.jpg That will pass the file direct to exiftool without saving it.