Synopsis
Options
-h,--help | print this help and exit |
-H,--Help | print full documentation via less and exit |
-V,--version | print version and exit |
-f,--force | rename even if some files have no creation date |
-d,--dry | do a dry run, i.e. don´t actually rename files |
Description
renamefotos renames all
.jpg,
.jpeg,
.tif,
.tiff,
.mov,
.asf,
.mts, and
.avi files in the current directory, using the creation date as reported by
exiftool, using its
-createdate,
-gpsdatetime, and
-␣datetimeoriginal
␣options,␣in␣that␣order.␣No␣file␣is␣renamed␣if␣any␣of␣the␣files does not contain a date, as that would change file order. Upper case extensions are converted to lower case, jpeg is converted to jpg.
The new name is will have the format yyyymmdd-hhmmss, with the extension of the original converted to lower case. If renaming would generate an existing filename, an extra character a-z is added.
Author
Wybo Dekker
Copyright
Released under the
GNU General Public License Functions used:
excheck
synopsis: | excheck executable1 [executable2...]
|
description: | check if all needed execs are there and getopt is GNU |
handle_options
synopsis: | handle_options "$@"
|
description: | handle the options. |
globals used: | Myname Version
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exists
synopsis: | handle_options "$@"
|
description: | handle the options. |
globals used: | Myname Version
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rename
synopsis: | rename arg1 arg2
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description: | renames arg1 to arg2, unless the --dry option was used, |
| and then reports this operation |
globals used: | Myname Version dry
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renameall
description: | loops through the associative array fromto and renames each |
| key to the corresponding value |
globals used: | Myname Version fromto
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finddate
synopsis: | finddate arg
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description: | finddate tries, with exiftool‘s -creationdate option, |
| to find the creation date of the file given in the argument. If that is not found, it tries the -gpsdatetime and -datetimeoriginal options. The date found is reported in the format dddddddd-dddddd. If no date is found, reports an empty line. |
globals used: | Myname Version
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