Anno domini 2021 Sun, 11 Jul 11:58:13 +0000 dep via tde-users scripsit: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 6:34 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > A problem with unconstrained exiftool is that to be safe it makes a copy of each file it modifies, so there's generally a lot of cleaning up to do after running it. Not in this case, just put some images in a temprary folder and run: $ exiftool '-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal' . .. nothing to clean up :) Nik > > dep > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album > Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/ -- 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