Regarding this issue, on my Solaris system I try: exiftool -UserComment="aaa\nbbb\nccc" file.jpg and then try: exiftool -UserComment file.jpg User Comment : aaa\nbbb\nccc so I am also seeing the same problem where the "\n" is simply being treated as two characters rather than as a newline. If a newline was actually being output, I would expect to see something line: exiftool -UserComment file.jpg User Comment : aaa bbb ccc Regards, -- Jeffery Small