On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:38:07 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a recursive directory of photos with inconsistent file-names. > Is there a program that will rename all the files, based upon the time > and date that the photo was taken? Can I do this with bash (that means > that bash will need to read the exif data)? Thanks in advance for any > ideas. > > Dotan Cohen Hello I know that you specifically asked for a command line utility that would accomplish what you want. But if you would not mind trying a graphical application, KRename will do what you want. For an experiment, I started out with a tree of 7 directories and 44 files. The file names started out looking like this: 100_0219.JPG 100_0220.JPG 100_0221.JPG 100_0222.JPG 100_0223.JPG 100_0224.JPG 100_0225.JPG 100_0226.JPG 100_0227.JPG 100_0228.JPG I then went through the following steps after opening up KRename: 1. Clicked the "Add" button and navigated to the root of the series of directories that contained the files that I wanted to rename. 2. Checked the box names "Add sub-directories recursively" and then clicked "Open" 3. I then clicked the "File-name" tab. This is where we start to construct the file-name the way that you want it. 4. In the "Template" box, I delete the "$" symbol. That eliminates the old file-name from the "Renamed" preview column. 5. Next I click the "Functions" button and select "JPEG EXIF Info" from the drop down menu. 6. This brings up a list of over twenty choices. For this experiment, I picked the following (I added the " - " between choices for formatting purposes. You can leave that out or put whatever you want in there): [jpgCreationDate] - [jpgCreationTime] - [jpgDate/time] 7. I then clicked the "Finish" button. This resulted in recursively renamed jpgs that look like this: 06/05/03 - 07:04:59 am - 06/05/03 07:04:59 am 01.JPG 06/05/03 - 07:15:24 am - 06/05/03 07:15:24 am 02.JPG 06/05/03 - 07:15:38 am - 06/05/03 07:15:38 am 03.JPG Unfortunately, my system doesn't display the "/" symbol correctly, so the file-names only look exactly like that in Konqueror. But you could use KRename to change the "/" symbol to whatever you want it to be. You can get the most recent version's FC5 RPM here: http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/krename/krename-3.0.12-1rhfc5.i386.rpm Here is the KRename download page: http://www.krename.net/Stable.6.0.html Hope this helps, Steven P. Ulrick
