natanielf / gester

A shell script for automating media ingest.

Gester

A shell script for automating media ingest.

Usage

./gester.sh SOURCE_DIR TARGET_DIR DATE_FORMAT

Where:

• SOURCE_DIR is the directory of the source media (such as the DCIM directory of a camera's SD card).
• TARGET_DIR is the directory in which you want to ingest media (where gester will copy media files to).
• DATE_FORMAT is the format of the subdirectories that will be created inside of TARGET. YYYY is for the year, MM is for the month, and DD is for the day.

You can add the following to your shell configuration (e.g. .bashrc) to use gester anywhere:

alias gester="/path/to/gester.sh"

Examples:

• ./gester.sh /path/to/source /path/to/target YYYY-MM-DD
• ./gester.sh /path/to/source /path/to/target YYYY/MM/
• ./gester.sh /path/to/source /path/to/target YYYY

Features

• Supports any media file that contains EXIF metadata that can be read by ExifTool
• Preserves FileModifyDate EXIF tag
• Configurable destination subdirectory formatting
• Checks for file parity after copying each file to ensure the copy was successful
• Skips files that already exist in the destination directory

Required Software

• ExifTool: Application for reading, writing and editing meta information.