PC Tips & Tricks

This is a small shell script I use to organize my pictures.
I usually download pictures from my digital camera to a folder and from time to time I want to put them in the folder corresponding to the date I took them. This script reads the EXIF data from the pictures and copies them to where they belong. The directory structure looks like this:

Year
  Month 1
    Day 1
    Day 2
  Month 2
    Day 1

and so on

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#!/bin/sh
from=/home/pctips/jpg
to=/home/pctips/pictures
find $from -iname '*jpg' | while read FILENAME
do
        year=`exiftool "$FILENAME"  | awk '/Date\/Time Original/ {print $4}'|cut -f1 -d':'`
        month=`exiftool "$FILENAME"  | awk '/Date\/Time Original/ {print $4}'|cut -f2 -d':'`
        day=`exiftool "$FILENAME"  | awk '/Date\/Time Original/ {print $4}'|cut -f3 -d':'`
        target=$to/$year/$month/$day
        mkdir -p $target
        cp "$FILENAME" $target
done

It doesn’t check if the folder exists, just tries to create it, so it can be updated to verify if that folder exists.
You just have to edit from and to and write your source folder and destination folder.

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