I had taken pictures using a friend’s SD card. He copied all the files to my flash drive, but this left me without a nice, tidy directory structure. Normally, I organize my photos like:<\/p>\n
\n2008\r\n 2008_06_27\r\n 2008_06_28\r\n 2008_06_29<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nFirst off, I needed to list the files by date:<\/p>\n
\nls -lt<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nThis showed me that I had files from the 27th, 28th, and 29th in a single directory. So I created a directory for each date.<\/p>\n
Next, I used find<\/tt> with the -newer<\/tt> and -exec<\/tt> switches to execute a move command on each file newer than a particular file.<\/p>\n
By looking at the ls -lt<\/tt> output, I found the last photo taken on each day. IMG_6369.JPG was the last taken on the 28th, and IMG_6284.JPG was the last taken on the 27th.<\/p>\n
To move all of the files taken on the 28th and 29th, I used this command:<\/p>\n
\nfind . -type f -newer IMG_6284.JPG -exec mv {} 2008_06_28 \\;<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nNow, all files taken after the 27th are located in the 2008_06_28 directory. Now, I change into that directory, and execute:<\/p>\n
\nfind . -type f -newer IMG_6369.JPG -exec mv {} ..\/2008_06_29 \\;<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nNow I’m left with all the photos from the 27th in the main directory. Those could easily be moved with:<\/p>\n
\nfind . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv {} ..\/2008_06_27 \\;<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nI’m sure there is a quicker, cleaner way to do this, but for the limited number of subdirectories I had to filter into, this was reasonably efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had taken pictures using a friend’s SD card. He copied all the files to my flash drive, but this left me without a nice, tidy directory structure. Normally, I organize my photos like: 2008 2008_06_27 2008_06_28 2008_06_29 First off, … Continue reading