---
title: "remove gps metadata from image"
seo_description: code snippet on how to use exiftool in the shell to remove gps metadata from images
date: 2023-01-31T12:53:04+01:00
draft: false
snippet_types:
  - exiftool
---

Recently I noticed some of the images on my site had GPS metadata info. Thats
not very private! So I did some googling and found this solution.

```shell
$ exiftool -GPS*= $(fd -e jpg -e png -e jpeg)
```

[source](https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=12615.0)