exifsort

TOOL CONSOLIDATED TO https://github.com/koma75/imgtk

Command line tool to sort image files in one folder to another by date of image (exif meta-data or file creation date).

Installation

> pip install exifsort

Usage

Move command

Usage: exifsort mv [OPTIONS] SRCDIR TGTDIR

  Sort and Move images from SRCDIR to TGTDIR.

Options:
  -r, --recurse    Search for images in SRCDIR recursively
  -o, --overwrite  Overwrite files in TGTDIR
  -H, --hierarch   Create a hierarchical directory for Year, Month and Date in
                   TGTDIR
  -d, --dry-run    Dry run the command without moving
  -f, --fmt <fmt>  Format target directory name using date format string give
                   in <fmt>.  Use Python strftime directives.
  -V, --verbose    output in verbose mode
  -h, --help       Show this message and exit.

Moves the images inside SRCDIR into sorted folders under TGTDIR. Target folders will be sorted based on the date the image was created (Referes to Exif meta-data or the file creation date if exif is not available).

Options

-r, --recursive
- search images in SOURCEDIR and any subdirectories.
-o, --overwrite
- overwrite any image files in TARGETDIR
-H, --hierarch
- create a folder for year, month and date in a hierarchical manner instead of one folder for each date.
-d, --dry-run
- dry run the command. nothing will be moved
-f, --fmt DATEFORMAT
- format the folder name using date format string specified by DATEFORMAT
- ignored when "-h" is specified.
-v, --verbose
- verbose mode

Copy command

> exifsort cp [OPTIONS] SOURCEDIR TARGETDIR

same options as move, but copies all source files to destination instead of moving the files.