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I need the exact opposite of How to remove orientation attribute from the photo without touching other exif-data?

I want to keep the EXIF rotation data, but I want to strip the rest of the data. Obviously I can use exiftool -all= file.jpg but that will remove the orientation data as well, which is undesirable.

Is there a way to keep only the rotation data with exiftool? I could use exiftran or something similar, but I'd rather just leave only the rotation data.

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    \$\begingroup\$ You might also want to keep colour profiles in the image's metadata so that the colours are displayed is intended. \$\endgroup\$
    – Flimm
    Mar 4, 2022 at 23:13

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Duplicate of this StackOverflow question

exiftool -all:all= -tagsfromfile @ -exif:Orientation /path/to/files

-all:all= removes all data, then Orientation is copied back into the file with the -TagsFromFile option.

Do not run this command on RAW files (NEF, ARW, CR2, etc.; see Exiftool FAQ #8). This command creates backup files. Add -overwrite_original to suppress the creation of backup files. Add -r to recurse into subdirectories.

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A bit of a hack, but if you're on a Unix-like system, you can use backticks to re-inject the desired value into the image:

exiftool -all= -Orientation=`exiftool -b -Orientation file.jpg` file.jpg

Note that the -b flag is important so that the tag value is outputed without the tag name (see here for more).

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