On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 15:26 (+0000), dep via tde-users wrote: > said Steven D'Aprano via tde-users: >> On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 11:38:58PM +0000, dep via tde-users wrote: >>> Is there any way to have a column heading in a file manaher -- I >>> prefer Krusader, but Konqueror if I must -- list a file's creation >>> date rather than its modified date? >> Linux file systems don't record the file creation date. >> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102691/get-age-of-given-file/10 >>2692#102692 > Well, that kinda sucks. EXIF maintains a creation date that's accessible > from numerous photo applications, but those applications are universally > awful for file-management purposes. Maybe there's a script someplace that > will overright modified date with creation date. Not a thing everyone > would want to do, but useful in a variety of circumstances. > -- > dep In case this is useful to you... it is a little script that sets the modification time of a JPEG to its EXIF time (which would then give you the date you seem to want in your file manager). If you save it to a file called "set-photo-time" and give it execute perms, then you can run it as follows: set-photo-time file1.jpg file2.jpg file3.jpg file4.jpg ... It requires the "exif" program, which you may or may not already have installed. It works for me, but use at your own risk. Cheers. Jim #! /bin/sh # For each JPEG argument, set the (Unix) time recorded in the EXIF # data (if any) to the Date/Time in the file. # Note that both "exif" and "exif.pl" give three times: # (a) non-annotated, (b) "original", (c) "digitized". # Exiftool gives (a) "Modify Date", (b) "Date/Time Original", (c) "Create Date" # # The code below uses "exif" and the non-annotated date. for i in "$@" do date=`exif "$i" 2>/dev/null | grep 'Date and Time ' \ | sed -e "s/.*|//" -e "s/[ :]//g" -e "s/\(.*\)\(..\)/\1.\2/"` if [ "z$date" = "z" ] then echo "${i}: has no EXIF data and time" 1>&2 else echo "${i}: has date $date" touch -t $date "$i" fi done ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
