Subject: Re: Directory creation and file moving by modification dates? comp.unix.shell(231631)

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Subject: Re: Directory creation and file moving by modification dates?

Posted on: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:31:31 +0200

On 2010-07-28, Tuxedo wrote:
>> I'm not on the system that script is on, but if you'd like to try it, just
>> give a yell, and I'll find it for you.
>
> Yes, this sounds great! I'd like to give it a try if you would be so kind
> to make it available somewhere.

Mind that this is something I had to cobble together real quick to sort out
my sister's 4500 pictures in a *very* big hurry for xmas, 2 years ago. It's
ugly, but it works. I just had a test run on a batch of pictures.

Go to http://www.rikishi42.net/SkunkWorks/Junk/ and take a copy of the 3
files starting with 'exif'. I put them in my ~/bin/ directory. Make'em
executable.

Right, so try this on a copy first. Say you put your test files in a dir
called ~/pics_test/ .

cd ~/pics_test
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.jpg' -exec exif_date.py '{}' ';'

It will:
- create a dir 'Exif_out' in your dir
- create a dir with the date (yyyymmdd) in 'Exif_out'
- rename each file to 'yyyymmdd_hhmmss__OriginalPictureName.jpg'
and move it into 'Exif_out/yyyymmdd/'
- NOT touch files where the Exif date can't be found

We can allways change/remove the base dir, subdirs and file names. Just give
a yell.

Have fun !

--
When in doubt, use brute force.
-- Ken Thompson

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