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Old 08-07-2011, 10:50 AM   #1
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BASH to find pics and vids with no date taken exif


Is there a script to do this? I have shotwell and want to find files that are going to cause problems with automatic sorting.

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Old 08-07-2011, 11:48 AM   #2
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A script to do what? Your terse title line and post do not make your desired goal clear at all.

Please try again and explain in more detail. Give us some background about your environment, your media, what data you have and don't have, and some idea how you would like to proceed.
 
Old 08-07-2011, 11:58 AM   #3
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Sorry, I thought I had been clear.

I want to find pictures and videos that have no date or time recorded information within the file. Not date modified or date accessed but date taken. I believe this is part of the EXIF header.

SO, how can I find all files within a folder and its children that are missing this information?
 
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That's still not enough to go on.

What is your distribution? Your desktop environment?

What exactly are these files? What formats? Where do they come from? How are they being stored?

Do you want to be able to find files according to specific dates/times, or ranges, just extract the data from all files, or what?

What do you want the script to do when you've found the matching files, list them, rename them, or what?

In short, the only person here who knows what you want right now is you. You need to define exactly what you want from start to finish before we can really help you. I suggest you read the big red link in my signature, then follow it up with this page for a more detailed treatise: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


Anyway, reading exif data from images is a relatively simple operation. Videos, however, don't generally store "exif" data; each format has a different way to handle its metadata. We'd need to determine whether the files even contain the dates you want first.

But unless it's just a simple operation, I don't think anyone will want to write a whole script for you. We can guide you along, but you'll have to do the bulk of the work yourself. Let us know if you need help getting started.

If it's just simple file renaming you want, you might take a look at some of the various renaming tools out there. I know krename can read exif data, for example.
 
  


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