How can you get the metadata of an image by the Perl module?

Question

I installed the following component by MacPorts:

p5-image-info @1.16 (perl, graphics)
Extract meta information from image files

It says in its website that you can use it by

   Usage is something like this:

   use Image::Info qw(image_info);

   @info = image_info("filename");
   $refto_hash_describing_1st_image = $info[0];
   $refto_hash_describing_2nd_image = $info[1];

However, I run unsuccessfully

$perl  use Image::Info qw(image_info);
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
$

How can you get the metadata of an image by the Perl module?

Answer 1

The syntax described is how you would use it within a Perl script, not how you can use it as a single line from the shell.

Put this in a .pl file (e.g. "image_info.pl"):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Image::Info qw[image_info];
use Data::Dumper;

while (@ARGV) {
  print Dumper(image_info(shift));
}

And run it thus:

$ ./image_info.pl file.jpg

and revel in the masses of information it will tell you...

Answer 2

Read http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html