[Digikam-users] Thank you!

[John Bestevaar]

Thanks very much Guy. I have Ubuntu 10.04 and Digikam 1.2.0 but as an 
visual artist aged 65 and therefore late coming to computers, i have 
next to no skills with the command line, scripts etc or understanding 
what the..... is actually going on there.
However.. I am convinced of the argument that image meta data can be a 
powerful way to control images. Embedding QR codes in the metadata comes 
to mind. I have read Phil Harvey's website and agree with him in 
principle even though i cant use his tool.
My own website building project would certainly be much better if the 
images metadata GUI tools were available even if i had to pay for them.
Cheers JohnB

On 09/03/12 11:09, Guy Stalnaker wrote:
> John asked about the two tools I used for my image collection 
> restore/rename. One was digikam of course. The other is a commandline 
> shell script that uses exif_tool:
>
> http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
>
> It's available for Win/Mac/*Nix. I'm using Linux (kubuntu 11.10) and 
> the script below is what uses exif_tool and a bit of *nix magic. The 
> gist of it is using output from exif_tool
>
> exiftool -S -d "%Y/%m/%d/DSCN_%Y%m %dT%H%M%S" -EXIF:DateTimeOriginal 
> $file
>
> parsed through awk
>
> awk '{print $2}
>
> to isolate just the date/time output, which is then added to a string 
> to form a filename path:
>
> $HOME/Pictures/<awk_output>
>
> which is assigned to a variable DEST.
>
> That variable is the new path/filename. The install command is what 
> actually renames the input file and does the move. If a file already 
> exists with the name, the install command will not overwrite the 
> existing file, but will append ~#~ to the end fo the file being moved, 
> with # replaced the a real number.
>
> The shell script is very basic and could with a bit of work be more 
> elegant but it is functional and at present I'd rather just use it and 
> futz with it. If you're familiar with using commandline tools like 
> this in the Linux world just copy between the <quote></quote> to a 
> file, set the file executable (chmod +x <filename>), and put it where 
> it can be found (somewhere in the PATH env variable paths, e.g., 
> /usr/local/bin). You can remove the # before set -x and the script 
> will output what it's doing as it does it):
>
> <quote>
> #!/bin/bash
> # copy image files in and below the current(!) directory to
> # ~/Pictures/YEAR/MONTH/DAY/DSCN_YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS.jpg
> #
> # requires exiftool (pacman -S perl-exiftool)
> #
> # Designate filetype on command line:
> # %> exif_rename.pl jpg|JPG|gif|GIF|png|PNG|tif|TIF|nrw|NRW|nef|NEF
> #set -x
>
> args=("$@")
>
> FILETYPE=${args[0]}
>
> if [[ $FILETYPE = "jpg" || $FILETYPE = "JPG" ]] ; then
>   for file in *.jpg *.JPG; do
>       dest="$HOME/Pictures/$(exiftool -S -d "%Y/%m/%d/DSCN_%Y%m \
> %dT%H%M%S" -EXIF:DateTimeOriginal $file | awk '{print $2}').jpg"
>       echo "$file -> $dest"
>       install --backup=numbered -v -D -m 644 "$file" "$dest" && rm -rf 
> "$file"
>   done
> elif [[ $FILETYPE = "gif" || $FILETYPE = "GIF" ]] ; then
>   for file in *.gif *.GIF; do
>       dest="$HOME/Pictures/$(exiftool -S -d "%Y/%m/%d/DSCN__%Y%m \
> %dT%H%M%S" -EXIF:DateTimeOriginal $file | awk '{print $2}').gif"
>       echo "$file -> $dest"
>       install --backup=numbered -v -D -m 644 "$file" "$dest" && rm -rf 
> "$file"
>   done
> elif [[ $FILETYPE = "png" || $FILETYPE = "png" ]] ; then
>   for file in *.png *.PNG; do
>       dest="$HOME/Pictures/$(exiftool -S -d "%Y/%m/%d/DSCN_%Y%m \
> %dT%H%M%S" -EXIF:DateTimeOriginal $file | awk '{print $2}').png"
>       echo "$file -> $dest"
>       install --backup=numbered -v -D -m 644 "$file" "$dest" && rm -rf 
> "$file"
>   done
> elif [[ $FILETYPE = "tif" || $FILETYPE = "TIF" ]] ; then
>   for file in *.tif *.TIF; do
>       dest="$HOME/Pictures/$(exiftool -S -d "%Y/%m/%d/DSCN_%Y%m \
> %dT%H%M%S" -EXIF:DateTimeOriginal $file | awk '{print $2}').tif"
>       echo "$file -> $dest"
>       install --backup=numbered -v -D -m 644 "$file" "$dest" && rm -rf 
> "$file"
>   done
> elif [[ $FILETYPE = "nrw" || $FILETYPE = "NRW" ]] ; then
>   for file in *.nrw *.NRW; do
>       dest="$HOME/Pictures/$(exiftool -S -d "%Y/%m/%d/DSCN_%Y%m \
> %dT%H%M%S" -EXIF:DateTimeOriginal $file | awk '{print $2}').nrw"
>       echo "$file -> $dest"
>       install --backup=numbered -v -D -m 644 "$file" "$dest" && rm -rf 
> "$file"
>   done
> elif [[ $FILETYPE = "nef" || $FILETYPE = "NEF" ]] ; then
>   for file in *.nef *.NEF; do
>       dest="$HOME/Pictures/$(exiftool -S -d "%Y/%m/%d/DSCN_%Y%m \
> %dT%H%M%S" -EXIF:DateTimeOriginal $file | awk '{print $2}').nef"
>       echo "$file -> $dest"
>       install --backup=numbered -v -D -m 644 "$file" "$dest" && rm -rf 
> "$file"
>   done
> else
>   echo "No image files found."
> fi%
> </quote>
>
> On 03/07/2012 03:05 AM, John Bestevaar wrote:
>> Hi Guy
>> Would you let us know the names of the two tools you used?
>> Your scenario is one at least some of us may also encounter.
>> Cheers John Bestevaar
>>
>> On 07/03/12 16:13, Guy Stalnaker wrote:
>>> *nix magic
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