Read/Get Media File Info On Mac Terminal (1)

Author: Doe Hoon LEE

Read/Get Media File Info On Mac Terminal?!

Let’s first get the tool we need!

brew install media-info

How do we use this?

mediainfo <path-to-the-file>

you would then get something like this

It shows things like

• file name

• format

• duration

• created date

• etc..

What if I would like to get info of all media files in a directory?

for file in /Users/userName/Directory/*; do mediainfo $file; done

Wait a second! I see too many unnecessary extra information.

Can I see what I need only? SURE you can!

for file in /Users/userName/Directory/*; do mediainfo $file | grep 'Duration' | head -n 1; done

Next time, we will find out how we can get the total duration within a folder!

See you again!