Command-line tool

exiftool

brew/exiftool

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Perl lib for reading and writing EXIF metadata

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id OliverBetz.ExifTool -e
scoop install exiftool

macOS

brew install exiftool

Linux

brew install exiftool

Print the EXIF metadata for a given file

exiftool path/to/file

Remove all EXIF metadata from the given files

exiftool -All= path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Remove GPS EXIF metadata from given image files

exiftool "-gps*=" path/to/image1 path/to/image2 ...

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