Title basically, I need to parse the date modified, the time and seconds in order to reconstruct the filenames in the format of an android phone’s camera roll.

I should be able to make the script once I know how to parse the metadata is all

  • Eager EagleEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    maybe something like this using mediainfo and exiftool?

    #!/bin/bash

for file in *.jpg *.mp4; do
    # Extract date and time from file's metadata
    if [[ $file == *.jpg ]]; then
        datetime=$(exiftool -DateTimeOriginal -d "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S" "$file" | awk -F': ' '{print $2}')
    else
        datetime=$(mediainfo --Output="General;%File_Modified_Date%" "$file" | awk -F' ' '{print $1"_"$2}' | tr -d ':' | tr -d '-')
    fi

    # If datetime was found, rename the file 
    if [ -n "$datetime" ]; then
        # Extract extension of file 
        ext="${file##*.}"
        # Rename file with date and time as prefix (remove echo after testing it)
        echo mv -- "$file" "${datetime}.${ext}"
    fi

done