{"id":30,"date":"2007-11-13T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T10:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2007\/exifsort\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T03:46:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T03:46:27","slug":"exifsort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2007\/exifsort\/","title":{"rendered":"exifsort.pl &#8211; Sort digital images by EXIF date."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use 2 digital cameras, and my phone, to take pictures nearly every day. I came accross a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gnist.org\/article.php?story=exifdatesort\">perl script written by Lars Strand<\/a>. This copied photos from CAM0001.JPG to a date formatted file such as 20070113.0900.JPG.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to take this as a base, and change it into something that suited my own needs.<\/p>\n<p>The script will take directories on the command-line and copy any pictures found to a target directory set within the script. It then creates a file and directory structure based on the EXIF time\/date found in the JPEG.<\/p>\n<p>For example<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>\/source\/CAM0001.JPG<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>now becomes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>\/target\/2007\/11.nov\/20070113.0900.jpg<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>making the files easy to find and splitting them into months.<\/p>\n<p>The script produces an output such as,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>ExifSort v1.0 - http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/exifsort\/<\/p>\n<p> o Processing folder, \/mnt\/storage\/Photos\/100DSCIM\/<br \/>\n o Processing folder, \/mnt\/storage\/Photos\/100CASIO\/<br \/>\n    CIMG0553.JPG -&gt; 20071111_145714.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0554.JPG -&gt; 20071111_153500.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0555.JPG -&gt; 20071111_153529.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0556.JPG -&gt; 20071111_153614.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0557.JPG -&gt; 20071111_155707.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0564.JPG -&gt; 20071111_181839.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0567.JPG -&gt; 20071111_182038.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0569.JPG -&gt; 20071111_182659.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0574.JPG -&gt; 20071111_215006.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0575.JPG -&gt; 20071112_120508.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0580.JPG -&gt; 20071112_120723.jpg<br \/>\n    CIMG0582.JPG -&gt; 20071112_182803.jpg<br \/>\n o Processing complete.<br \/>\n    12 files copied.<br \/>\n     - 101 files the same.<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The script checks modified dates and file sizes, and will compare the md5 checksum if it still isn&#8217;t sure, to know if it has already copied an existing file.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/album\/main.php?cmd=album&#038;var1=photos\/\">photos folder<\/a> in my family photo gallery is a direct result of this exif sorting script.<\/p>\n<p>Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>jhead &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sentex.net\/~mwandel\/jhead\/\">http:\/\/www.sentex.net\/~mwandel\/jhead\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Perl Digest::MD5 &#8211; Available at <a href=\"http:\/\/search.cpan.org\/perldoc?Digest%3A%3AMD5\">CPAN<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Download<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-downloadmanager\/images\/ext\/unknown.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/download\/exifsort.pl\">exifsort.pl<\/a><\/strong> (5.2 KiB, 4,186 hits)<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use 2 digital cameras, and my phone, to take pictures nearly every day. I came accross a perl script written by Lars Strand. This copied photos from CAM0001.JPG to a date formatted file such as 20070113.0900.JPG. I decided to take this as a base, and change it into something that suited my own needs. 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