Anno domini 2021 Sat, 10 Jul 19:31:14 -0500 Michael via tde-users scripsit: > 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 > It might be that "exiftool" already has the functionality needed - quote from the man page: exiftool '-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal' dir Use the original date from the meta information to set the same file's filesystem modification date for all images in a directory. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ 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
