SCRUBPONY(1)

💖 NAME 💖

scrubpony — the manual page for scrubpony 1.3.0, bestie 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the vibe is this:

usage: scrubpony [options] <path>...

scrubpony strips all the identifying metadata off your images and does not touch the pixel data at all, fr fr. Not one pixel. It writes photo.scrubbed.jpg right next to each input file 🎀

And the paths? They can be files or directories — any number of them, in any mix you want. Go off 👑

🌸 the options, one by one, no skips

• -n — dry run mode 🫧 it reports what would be removed and writes absolutely nothing.
• --check — report only. And heads up: it exits with status 2 if any file is carrying metadata. It's giving "vibe check but for EXIF".
• -l, --list — lists the file's segment structure, writes nothing. Just looky-looky, no touchy 👀
• -v — verbose: shows you every single decision it makes. main character energy ✨
• -i — edit in place: replaces the original 🫣 (yes, the original original)
• -f — overwrite an existing output. If something's already sitting there, it's getting replaced 💀
• -r — recurse into directories 🔁
• -d DIR — mirror the source tree under DIR, keeping filenames, instead of writing .scrubbed files beside the inputs 🌈
• --strict — also drops JFIF, ICC and Adobe segments 🧚 that's the strict girlie setting
• --no-keep-orientation — does not re-emit the EXIF orientation. So rotated photos will display sideways. Consider yourself warned bestie 😭
• -h, --help — the text you're reading (well, the original one 💕)
• -V, --version — version

⚠️ Note: the output does not keep the original modification time. Because the mtime is metadata too, queen. That's the whole point 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The full documentation for scrubpony is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and scrubpony programs are properly installed at your site, then this command:

info scrubpony

should give you access to the complete manual 🦋

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mwah, that's a wrap 🫶

this was scrubpony 1.3.0, dated October 2026 — go scrub those pixels, you icon 👑⭐