A Simple Bash Script to Download and Organize Photos

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 26, 2010

[ Thanks to Dmitri
Popov
for this link. ]

“When it comes to dowloading photos from a storage card
and organizing them in the process, Rapid Photo Downloader is just
the ticket. But if you prefer to do that from the command line,
here is a simple Bash script cobbled together by yours truly.

“The script copies photos from a mounted storage device like an
SD card to the TMP folder, organizes the photos into folders by
date, and then renames each photo using the data pulled from the
photo’s metadata.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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