I actually need to standardize my code. I've got "learning F2" as something I want to do soon. The goal: use the exif data of my pictures to create [date in ISO 8601] - [original filename].[original file type termination]

So a picture taken the third of march 2022 titled "asdf.jpg" would become "2022-3-3 - asdf.jpg"

Help? lol

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you're on Linux exiftool can get the creation date for you: exiftool -p '$CreateDate' -d '%Y-%m-%d' FILENAME, and you could run tgat in a loop over your files, something like:

mkdir -p out
for f in *.jpg
do
createdate=$(exiftool -p '$CreateDate' -d '%Y-%m-%d' "${f}")
cp -p "${f}" "out/${createdate} - ${f}"
done

Obviously don't justbgo running code some stranger just posted on the internet, especially as I haven't tested it, but that should copy images from the current directory to a subdirectory called 'out' with the correct filenames.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ok I think I finally need to ask

What the fuck is up with the html code? Ive seen this in a lot of posts and it just throws me every time.

[–] scubbo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Do you mean strings like %Y? They're not url-encoded values - they're strftime format directives.

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