Automatically set file date from EXIF data
You can set the creation date of a picture or video as its access and modification time: If the creation date was saved in the exif data of some media, you can extract it with "exiftool -ee -CreateDate" and then "touch" the file with that time.
To do this automatically save the following script e.g. as /usr/local/bin/exiftool_set_create_date
Don't miss that the script has to be executable:
Usage: exiftool_set_create_date FILE
To change the file date of all files in the current directory:
You will get some output and separate logfiles for both successfully touched files and failed files in your home directory.
To do this automatically save the following script e.g. as /usr/local/bin/exiftool_set_create_date
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# exiftool_set_create_date: set the file date from exif "Creation Date".
echo -n "$@: "
# This script takes one filename as option.
# Escape space in filenames.
# Other special chracters might be handled here, too.
FILE="$(
echo $@ |
sed "s| |\\ |g"
)"
# Get the date from the exif data.
DATE="$(
exiftool -ee -CreateDate "$FILE" |
grep -Eo "[[0-9]{1,4}:]?[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[[0-9]{2}]?" |
sed "s|\:||g" |
sed "s| ||g"
)"
# Convert it for "touch". Expected format is [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss]
[ -n "$DATE" ] &&
if [ "$( echo "$DATE" | wc -m )" -eq 15 ] ; then
DATE_TOUCH="$( echo "$DATE" | grep -Eo "^[0-9]{12}").$( echo "$DATE" | grep -Eo "[0-9]{2}$" )"
elif [ "$( echo "$DATE" | wc -m )" -ge 9 ] && [ "$( echo "$DATE" | wc -m )" -le 15 ] ; then
DATE_TOUCH=$DATE
fi
# Set the date on the file.
[ -n "$DATE_TOUCH" ] &&
echo -n " touching with $DATE_TOUCH" &&
touch -t $DATE_TOUCH "$FILE" &&
echo " ...done." &&
echo "$FILE" >> ~/"$(basename $0)".log ||
{
echo " ...failed."
echo "$FILE" >> ~/"$(basename $0)"_fail.log
}
exit
Code:
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/exiftool_set_create_date
To change the file date of all files in the current directory:
Code:
find . -type f -exec exiftool_set_create_date '{}' ';'
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