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    exiftool: renaming pictures

    February 27, 2017 less than 1 minute read

    rename pictures according to their exifdata time stemp:

    [code]
    exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_%%c.%%e" .
    [/code]


    http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#filename

     

    Tags: bash, cmdline, exiftool, picture, renaming

    Categories: linux

    Updated: February 27, 2017

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