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exiftool: Add "-gps*=" removal example (#9522) 
* exiftool: Add "-gps*=" removal example

A common use of exiftool is removing location data from photos.  One may wish to preserve most EXIF data (ex. rotation, date/time taken, etc.) but remove private location data.  This example accomplishes this common task.

The proposed example comes from exiftool's author, Phil Harvey:
https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=6037.msg29731#msg29731

This example works to not only remove GPS data from EXIF but also from Adobe's XMP tags.

Tested with JPEG and HEIC photos using exiftool 12.50.
2022-11-20 15:39:37 +05:30

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exiftool

Read and write meta information in files. More information: https://exiftool.org.

  • Print the EXIF metadata for a given file:

exiftool {{file}}

  • Remove all EXIF metadata from the given files:

exiftool -All= {{file1 file2 ...}}

  • Remove GPS EXIF metadata from given image files:

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

  • Remove all EXIF metadata from the given image files, then re-add metadata for color and orientation:

exiftool -All= -tagsfromfile @ -colorspacetags -orientation {{image1 image2 ...}}

  • Move the date at which all photos in a directory were taken 1 hour forward:

exiftool "-AllDates+=0:0:0 1:0:0" {{path/to/directory}}

  • Move the date at which all JPEG photos in the current directory were taken 1 day and 2 hours backward:

exiftool "-AllDates-=0:0:1 2:0:0" -ext jpg

  • Only change the DateTimeOriginal field subtracting 1.5 hours, without keeping backups:

exiftool -DateTimeOriginal-=1.5 -overwrite_original

  • Recursively rename all JPEG photos in a directory based on the DateTimeOriginal field:

exiftool '-filename<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S%%lc.%%e {{path/to/directory}} -r -ext jpg