==== How to remove all metadata from an image on Linux ==== \\ Install the package (on Debian-based) apt install libimage-exiftool-perl We can now remove the metadata # syntax exiftool -all=[VALUE] [AFILEORFILES] # example: exiftool -all= *.jpg This operation also changes file modification time, if you want to recover the modification time of files you can do it with a simple find/sed command find . -type f -iname '*_original' -exec bash -c 'TGT=$(echo {}|sed "s/_original\$//"); touch -r {} "$TGT"' \;