Re: filename prefixes while transfering images from memory cards

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

>>
>>Adding a prefix to all the files in a directory is as easy as
>>
>>for i in *; do mv $i prefix$i; done
> 
> 
> Or you could use jhead.
> 
> This command looks at the Exif data in each jpeg in a directory, 
> extracts the timestamp, and renames each file to the timestamp.
> 
>     $ jhead -nf%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.[Jj][Pp][Gg]
> 
> Good if you have many days worth of images on a memory card.

Well, this method is a bit better. But I still need to manually type in
the image filenames that I want to group together (as described in my
other message I just sent).

->HS