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It can be useful to know the shutter counter for your Canon reflex camera, for example to compare with the data available here: http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/.

Wait no more, it is easy to access the shutter counter with gphoto2 on Linux.

Let's start with the installation of gphoto2 (replace apt with your favorite package manager):

apt install gphoto2

Then plug the camera to the computer with an USB cable and then:

gphoto2 --auto-detect

It should show something like this:

Model                          Port                                            
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Canon EOS 700D                 usb:001,007
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Then

gphoto2 --get-config /main/status/shuttercounter

and this is it:

Label: Shutter Counter Type: TEXT Current: 14611 ///