✨ metkleener ✨

_{Clean metadata from JPG and PNG image files with style.}

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🚀 Features

• Removes EXIF and IPTC metadata from JPEG images
• Removes textual metadata chunks (tEXt, iTXt, zTXt) from PNG images
• Supports individual files or directories (recursively processes images in directories)
• Keeps original images by default, or overwrites with --overwrite
• Optional output directory for cleaned files
• Clear, stylish ASCII banner and progress animation
• Verbose mode for detailed processing logs

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⚡ Usage

./metkleener.sh [OPTIONS] <file1> [file2 ...]

Options

Option	Description
--help	Show this help message
--overwrite	Overwrite original files (default: creates new files)
--output <dir>	Save output files to specified directory
--verbose	Show detailed processing information

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🎯 Examples

Clean a few images:

./metkleener.sh image1.jpg image2.png

Clean all JPGs in the current directory and save to a folder:

./metkleener.sh --output cleaned/ *.jpg

Overwrite images in a directory (recursively):

./metkleener.sh --overwrite folder/

Verbose output:

./metkleener.sh --verbose image.jpg

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🛠 Requirements

• bash
• file
• xxd
• awk
• grep
• tail
• dd
• coreutils (for mktemp and find)

_{All are standard on most Linux distributions and macOS.}

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💡 Notes

• The script creates cleaned images with _clean suffix by default unless --overwrite is set.
• Only JPG and PNG files are processed; unsupported formats are skipped with a warning.
• When a directory is given, it is searched recursively for JPG and PNG files.

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📄 License

GNU General Public License v3.0

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🙏 Credits

• ASCII Art generated for visual style.
• fog_of_faith.

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