Re: Organising photos visually

Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:40:15 +1100

[ Brought back on list, since Jon is very correct. - Cameron ]

On 30Jan2018 05:09, Jon LaBadie <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 08:53:32PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Run a small shell script like this (untested, but happy to help debug):

 cd your-staging-directory
 n=1
 while :
 do
   for f in *.jpg
   do
     [ -s "$f" ] || continue
     while :
     do
       target=$( printf 'your-ordered-directory/%05d-%s' "$n" "$f" )
       [ -e "$target" ] || break
       n=$((n+1))
     done
     mv "$f" "$target"
   done
   sleep 1
 done

I think all the files will be named 00001-<orig_name>
When there is no name collision you skip the increment.

Yes. Need to increment after the "mv" as well. Good call.

Thanks,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx)
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