On Saturday 10 July 2021 10:43:56 am Jim via tde-users wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 15:26 (+0000), dep via tde-users wrote: > > > > 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. > Another alternative I wrote several years ago: http://inet-design.com/blogs/michael/extract-exif-datetimeoriginal-field-and-prepend-it-file-name-facilitate-image-sorting Although looking at that, it's been up-rev'ed, so attaching the last version, but do read its comments in the code before running. Best, Michael
#!/bin/bash # # Extracts the Exif:DateTimeOriginal field and prepends # it to the image file to facilitate sorting. # # One off script, possibly has bugs, use at your own risk. # # You will need imagemagick: # yum install imagemagick # apt-get install imagemagick # (whatever you use to install it) # # Script=addexiftime # Author=Michael # Email=staff_scripts at the commercial domain inet-design # Website=http://www.inet-design.com/ # License=GPL # Script repository= # # # # # Prettify things INVT="\033[7m";NORM="\033[0m";BOLD="\033[1m";BLINK="\033[5m";BLACK_F="\033[30m";BLACK_B="\033[40m";RED_F="\033[31m";RED_B="\033[41m";GREEN_F="\033[32m";GREEN_B="\033[42m";YELLOW_F="\033[33m";YELLOW_B="\033[43m";BLUE_F="\033[34m";BLUE_B="\033[44m";MAGENTA_F="\033[35m";MAGENTA_B="\033[45m";CYAN_F="\033[36m";CYAN_B="\033[46m";WHITE_F="\033[37m";WHITE_B="\033[47m"; #### # Who am I? MyName=`basename "$0"` # Check usage if [ "$1" != "" ] && [ ! -d "$1" ] ; then echo -e "$YELLOW_F""Usage :""$NORM $GREEN_F""$MyName [\"Path\"] [\"File Filter\"]""$NORM" echo "Default Path : Current Directory" echo "Default File Filter : *.jpg" echo -e "$YELLOW_F""Example :""$NORM $GREEN_F""$MyName \"/home/user/some directory\" \"*.jpeg\"""$NORM" exit fi # Say Hello StartTime=`date +%s` CurrDateTime=$(date +"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") echo -e "$RED_F$CurrDateTime:$GREEN_F$BOLD Starting$NORM \"$MyName\" It can take awhile, need coffee?" # Do the work if [ "$1" != "" ] ; then cd "$1" fi ResultsDir="`pwd`/results" FileExt="*.jpg" if [ "$2" != "" ] ; then FileExt="$2" fi FileExt="*" # Comment this out or you get everything in the current dir. FileList=`find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "$FileExt"` FilesToProcess=`echo "$FileList" | wc -l` D00=`date +"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"` MESG="Adding EXIF timestamps and copying to: $ResultsDir" echo -e "$YELLOW_F$D00:$NORM $GREEN_F$MESG$NORM" MESG="Files to Process : $FilesToProcess" echo -e "$YELLOW_F$D00:$NORM $GREEN_F$MESG$NORM" FilesProcessed="0" FilesProcessedwDate="0" mkdir -p results while IFS= read -r filename do DateString="" NameofFile=`basename "$filename"` DateString=`identify -verbose "$NameofFile" | grep exif:DateTimeOriginal | awk '{ print $2" "$3 }' | sed -e s/":"/"."/g -e s/" "/"--"/g` # echo # echo $NameofFile , "$DateString" # echo if [ "$DateString" = "" -o "$DateString" = ".--." ]; then DateString=`identify -verbose "$NameofFile" | grep exif:DateTime: | awk '{ print $2" "$3 }' | sed -e s/":"/"."/g -e s/" "/"--"/g` if [ "$DateString" = "" ]; then DateString="1900.00.00--00.00.00" fi fi #Strip off any existing dates NameofFile=`echo $NameofFile | sed s/"^[0-9]\{4\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}-\{1,2\}"/""/` NameofFile=`echo $NameofFile | sed s/"^[0-9]\{4\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}-\{1,2\}[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}.[0-9]\{2\}-\{1,2\}"/""/` cp --preserve=timestamps "$filename" "results/$DateString--$NameofFile" # echo "results/$DateString--$NameofFile" if [ "$DateString" != "1900.00.00--00.00.00" ]; then FilesProcessedwDate=$((FilesProcessedwDate + 1)) fi FilesProcessed=$((FilesProcessed + 1)) D00=`date +"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"` MESG="Files Processed : $FilesProcessedwDate / $FilesProcessed" echo -en "$YELLOW_F$D00:$NORM $GREEN_F$MESG$NORM" echo -en "\r" done <<< "$FileList" D00=`date +"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"` MESG="Files Processed : $FilesProcessedwDate / $FilesProcessed" echo -e "$YELLOW_F$D00:$NORM $GREEN_F$MESG$NORM" D00=`date +"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"` MESG="Files in $ResultsDir : `ls -1 "$ResultsDir" | wc -l`" echo -e "$YELLOW_F$D00:$NORM $GREEN_F$MESG$NORM" # Say Goodbye END_TIME=`date +%s` ELAPSED=`expr $END_TIME - $StartTime` remainder="$(expr $ELAPSED % 3600)" hours="$(expr $(expr $ELAPSED - $remainder) / 3600)" seconds="$(expr $remainder % 60)" minutes="$(expr $(expr $remainder - $seconds) / 60)" CurrDateTime=$(date +"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") echo -e "$RED_F$CurrDateTime:$GREEN_F$BOLD Finished$NORM \"$MyName\" Elapsed time: `printf %02d $hours`:`printf %02d $minutes`:`printf %02d $seconds`"
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