Introduction
When my wife an I are on vacation, we always take photos using two cameras. One is my own and second belongs to my wife. After holidays we want to have one folder with all the photos sorted by date and time and named in this manner, so we do not have to select sort_by_date each time we want to view them. Of course, date and time on our cameras are synchronized.Main
Creation date and time could be obtain from photo file using exiftool program from command line:$ exiftool DSCN6201.JPGand the output looks like this:
ExifTool Version Number : 9.13 File Name : DSCN6201.JPG Directory : . File Size : 2.8 MB ...Date/Time Original : 2013:08:15 08:56:34
Create Date : 2013:08:15 08:56:34
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I have written shell script which using exiftool rename all JPG files in current directory with prefix_yyyy_mm_dd__hh_mm_ss.JPG pattern. I only have to copy script file to photo directory and execute it with given prefix:
$ ls DSCN6201.JPG DSCN6203.JPG DSCN8338.JPG DSCN8340.JPG DSCN6202.JPG DSCN8337.JPG DSCN8339.JPG sorter.sh $ ./sorter.sh holidays $ ls holidays_2013_08_15__08_55_55.JPG holidays_2013_08_15__08_56_34.JPG holidays_2013_08_15__08_56_08.JPG holidays_2013_08_17__08_37_44.JPG holidays_2013_08_15__08_56_22.JPG holidays_2013_08_17__08_41_55.JPG holidays_2013_08_15__08_56_29.JPG sorter.shScript is available here.
