Re: photo management and camera download by date
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Digby Tarvin wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:19:01AM +0200, jmt wrote:
>> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:09, Richard Otte wrote:
[snip]
> The problem is then no longer peculiar to cameras/images, and reduces
> to a simple 'how can I sort a bunch of files into directories by date'.
>
> You will need a command that will convert a file to a directory name
> based on the files datastamp and the directory nameing scheme you want
> to use - you may need to write that depending on how you want the
> directories named. Something simple like "images-YYYY-MM-DD" could
> be done with 'ls' and a filter.
>
> After that it is a fairly simple script.
>
> If you are using a dedicated application to download images via USB or
> some other interface, then this depends of the timestamp being correctly
> preserved on the resulting image files. But any applicaiton that didn't
> do this would be crazy..
>
> And if you want to do this in a GUI, then you are limited to what
> the application writer thought to privide, and I am not aware of
> anything that does it (but then I don't use a GUI app to manage
> my camera...)
Package jhead will rename files based upon data in the Exif header.
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