Sorting iPhone image files -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Tue Sep 1 14:30:39 UTC 2015


On 01/09/15 10:18, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 09/01/2015 03:47 PM, Markku Kolkka wrote:
>> 1.9.2015, 16:31, Bob Goodwin kirjoitti:
>>> So it seems there probably is either software to sort them or a script
>>> that would sort on the date shown by "file."
>>>
>>> What can I do to accomplish this?
>>
>> Use exiftool to rename the files based on the creation date:
>> http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename
>
> The corresponding Fedora-package is perl-Image-ExifTool.
>
> Try
> dnf install perl-Image-ExifTool
> or
> dnf install /usr/bin/exiftool
>
>
> Another helpful tool in cases like the OP's is jhead (Package jhead), 
> a tool which allows to manipulate jpgs' exif data. I am using it to 
> achieve similar purposes as the OP in shell scripts.
>
> Ralf
>
.
Thanks Ralf, I had just downloaded the .tar.gz file but the rpm is 
preferred of course.

I had tried just 'exiftool" but dnf didn't find it that way.

Installed:
   perl-Image-ExifTool.noarch 9.90-1.fc22

Complete!

Thanks to Marku also, muc appreciated,

Bob

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