Rename files With Creation Date?

Hello,

I'm new to using Linux as my full time PC at home (though I have been using
a MythTV box for about a year now, so I have some Linux experience). One
process I have yet to figure out how to replicate is transferring my images
and movies from my camera and renaming them. Actually it is just the
renaming portion that I need assisstance with. On my Windows PC I had
renamed all of my images as YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.<ext> (jpg or mov) during the
import process. I have tried searching for a script or something that
would perform this task on Linux. I found that JHead would do this for all
of my images, using the EXIF information, but I would still need something
to rename all of my movies.

I figure that this is possible with some sort of shell script, but I don't
know how to get the file date information in the script. I'm hoping that
someone here can offer some insight.

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Timothy M. Musa
Community Consolidated School District 93
Carol Stream, IL

http://www.ccsd93.com/
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Tim Musa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to using Linux as my full time PC at home (though I have been using
> a MythTV box for about a year now, so I have some Linux experience). One
> process I have yet to figure out how to replicate is transferring my images
> and movies from my camera and renaming them. Actually it is just the
> renaming portion that I need assisstance with. On my Windows PC I had
> renamed all of my images as YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.<ext> (jpg or mov) during the
> import process. I have tried searching for a script or something that
> would perform this task on Linux. I found that JHead would do this for all
> of my images, using the EXIF information, but I would still need something
> to rename all of my movies.
>
> I figure that this is possible with some sort of shell script, but I don't
> know how to get the file date information in the script. I'm hoping that
> someone here can offer some insight.
>

I made a hack to dump my camera into a directory, where all files is named after the date
in the EXIF field.

You can maybe use some of it for your own script.

#!/bin/bash

Olympus=/media/usbdisk

cd ${Olympus}/dcim/100olymp || exit


for i in *.jpg
do
exif=$(exiftran -d $i |grep '0x0132' |\
sed -e 's,.*Date and Time.*\(20..\)(..\)(..\) \(..\)(..\)(..\),\1\2\3-\4\5\6.jpg,')
if [ ! -e $exif ]
then
cp $i ~/Olympus/$exif
fi
done

If you will have YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS , change the sed to \1-\2-\3-\4\5\6.jpg

For movies I don't know, since my own movies are from dv format first, and I use
dvgrab --timestamp , so they get this name from start.
Some day I must test MythTV , but I'm not there yet.


/birre

Birger wrote:
> Tim Musa wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to using Linux as my full time PC at home (though I have been using
>> a MythTV box for about a year now, so I have some Linux experience). One
>> process I have yet to figure out how to replicate is transferring my images
>> and movies from my camera and renaming them. Actually it is just the
>> renaming portion that I need assisstance with. On my Windows PC I had
>> renamed all of my images as YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.<ext> (jpg or mov) during the
>> import process. I have tried searching for a script or something that
>> would perform this task on Linux. I found that JHead would do this for all
>> of my images, using the EXIF information, but I would still need something
>> to rename all of my movies.
>>
>> I figure that this is possible with some sort of shell script, but I don't
>> know how to get the file date information in the script. I'm hoping that
>> someone here can offer some insight.
>>
>
> I made a hack to dump my camera into a directory, where all files is named after the date
> in the EXIF field.
>
> You can maybe use some of it for your own script.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> Olympus=/media/usbdisk
>
> cd ${Olympus}/dcim/100olymp || exit
>
>
> for i in *.jpg
> do
> exif=$(exiftran -d $i |grep '0x0132' |\
> sed -e 's,.*Date and Time.*\(20..\)(..\)(..\) \(..\)(..\)(..\),\1\2\3-\4\5\6.jpg,')
> if [ ! -e $exif ]
> then
> cp $i ~/Olympus/$exif
> fi
> done
>
> If you will have YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS , change the sed to \1-\2-\3-\4\5\6.jpg
>
> For movies I don't know, since my own movies are from dv format first, and I use
> dvgrab --timestamp , so they get this name from start.
> Some day I must test MythTV , but I'm not there yet.
>
>
> /birre

Hmm, I saw some error :-(
it should be:
if [ ! -e ~/Olympus/$exif ]

/birre

Tim,

KRename can do that.

Uwe


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