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Guides

Short guides, real tasks.

Every one of these walks a single task from first command to done. No theory dumps — the concepts live in the glossary when you want them, and every flag is in the documentation.

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Start

See what is in your photos

A dry run reads the file, writes nothing, and prints every decision with its reason.

1 minute
Start

Scrub a folder before uploading

Mirror a tree into a clean copy, leaving every original exactly as it was.

1 minute

Working on a library 2

Use

Scrub photos in place

Atomic replacement, with three costs worth knowing before you start.

2 minutes
Automate

Check photos in CI or a pre-commit hook

--check changes nothing and puts the verdict in the exit code.

3 minutes

Trust but verify 2

Verify

Verify the pixels did not change

Four independent checks, and one you can do with nothing but a hex viewer.

2 minutes
Choose

Decide whether you need --strict

It drops ICC, JFIF and Adobe too — and it costs you colour.

2 minutes

Get ScrubPony

Strips identifying metadata out of JPEGs without touching a pixel. C99, no dependencies beyond libc, macOS and Linux, MIT-licensed.

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