Sorts stuff into a bunch of folders
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You got a folder with jpg's at ~/Pictures and want to sort it into ~/Sorted~
Execute
image-sorter -exif -in ~/Pictures -out ~/Sorted
to
- find every file in ~/Pictures
- try to read and parse exif data
- create a folder with the year as name in ~/Sorted
- move the file there
If exif data couldn't be parsed or found, this file won't be moved at all
There are two modes, either exif mode or regex When in exif mode, it will try to use the exif data of the file for the new directory name.
If you got e.g. .pngs which should be sorted there's not exif data, but probably your files look like that:
PICTURE-2016-02-01 11-01-02.png
PICTURE-2017-02-25 00-01-02.png
PICTURE-2017-05-05 00-01-02.png
and you want it to be sorted by its year, execute
image-sorter -in ~/Pictures -out ~/Sorted -regex 'PICTURE-XXXX(\-[0-9][0-9])* [0-9]*(\-[0-9]*)*\.png' -placeholder XXXX
2017/07/31 17:54:15 File: ~/Pictures/PICTURE-2016-02-01 11-01-02.png in dir Sorted/2016/PICTURE-2016-02-01 11-01-02.png
2017/07/31 17:54:15 File: ~/Pictures/PICTURE-2017-02-25 00-01-02.png in dir Sorted/2017/PICTURE-2017-02-25 00-01-02.png
2017/07/31 17:54:15 File: ~/Pictures/PICTURE-2017-05-05 00-01-02.png in dir Sorted/2017/PICTURE-2017-05-05 00-01-02.png
which will sort your images based on the placeholder into
.
├── 2016
│ └── PICTURE-2016-02-01\ 11-01-02.png
└── 2017
├── PICTURE-2017-02-25\ 00-01-02.png
└── PICTURE-2017-05-05\ 00-01-02.png
When using -exif mode, the regex will only be used for finding files, so the placeholder option won't be used at all. (default regex is .*)
If you wan't to find your files by regex, make sure you set regex and placeholder accordingly.