Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:31:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: thoughts on sorting files into sub-folders by access date? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007011328250.84168@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilntk8nw4bORlA-E3Wc96NwFUdjhlnqla-xcx92@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTilntk8nw4bORlA-E3Wc96NwFUdjhlnqla-xcx92@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Steve Franks wrote: > My high-end point&shoot camera likes to glob all my photos in a single > folder, and it's glutting up my drive, and makes finding a specific > trip unpleasant, with no good place for metadata. My SLR sorts them > into folders by date, which I love. > > I can't find anything close googling, so I d/l a bunch of perl > examples. Before I figure this out in python (I'm a hardware > developer by trade, so that seems most sensible [libc doesn't seem to > have any os-agnostic way of playing with file times, no?])... > > I thought I'd check if there's some trivially simple way of doing this > with bash & find first. The EXIF data is a better source for the date. graphics/py-exif, for example.
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