`-alldates` isn't recognized when printing metadata to terminal

[sigurdo]

While verifying the fix for #14 , I quickly stumbled upon another issue. The -alldates tag alias works fine for time shifting, but not for filtering metadata for printing.

Expected output (output from exiftool):

> exiftool -alldates test.jpg
Date/Time Original              : 2025:07:28 06:22:43
Create Date                     : 2025:07:28 16:22:43
Modify Date                     : 2025:07:27 20:22:43

Actual output:

> oxidex -alldates test.jpg

Version: Compiled from source from commit 7480844
Platform: x86-64 CachyOS Linux

[swackhamer]

I didn't even know about alias tags tldr: https://exiftool.sourceforge.net/TagNames/Shortcuts.html

There is such a large community of people that use this tool for radically different use cases its kind of crazy. I primarily use it for extracting metadata from files for cybersecurity, barely gave the writting tags a thought tbh.

There is also so many tags that make little (some but small) sense in a cybersecurity mindset such as MakerNotes, and other esoteric things like Lens information.

I originally made this to replace exiftool in strelka which is a static file scanner, and exiftoool being perl has always been a big attack surface for vulnerabilities and its slow and hard to keep alive if using the daemon. It was kind of a learning project for AI, I have a lot more experience now, and have just built a full blown loop AI harness to quickly go through all tags that I am missing and potentially actually get feature parity which seemed (still does) almost impossible at the time.

Keep on reporting these things I have no experience with and I will fix them.

[sigurdo]

I honestly don't have much experience with ExifTool either. I was recently looking for a metadata reading/editing tool to use for organizing my personal photo archive, and was curious if I could find a more modern alternative to ExifTool.

I really appreciate that you also care about my use-case. I think it is fascinating how AI can let a single person rebuild something like ExifTool from scratch. And I hope it turns into a real drop-in replacement in the end, and not just a bunch of code that doesn't really do what people need. Keep up the good work!