Remove EXIF Data From the Command Line


Removing EXIF Metadata with ImageMagick

If you need to strip the EXIF metadata from images, use ImageMagick’s mogrify command. To install ImageMagick on ubuntu using apt type the following command in a terminal

sudo apt-get  install ImageMagick

After ImageMagick is installed, you will have /usr/bin/mogrify available. The mogrify command can be used to strip Exif data from images.

mogrify -strip imagename.jpg