https://evan.wtf/tags/exiftool/Recent content in Exiftool on Evan HoffmanHugoen-USEvan HoffmanFri, 02 Mar 2012 10:01:11 +0000https://evan.wtf/2012/03/02/reorganizing-photos-in-1-line-with-exiftool/Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:01:11 +0000https://evan.wtf/2012/03/02/reorganizing-photos-in-1-line-with-exiftool/<p>A few years ago I wrote <a href="https://evan.wtf/2007/03/28/java-utility-to-reorganize-photos-by-date-taken-via-exif-metadata/">a utility</a> in Java to find all JPG files in a directory and move them into a date-based directory structure like /YYYY/MM/DD/ based on the date the photo was taken, extracted from the exif metadata in the file. Well, apparently that was a huge waste of time, as I just discovered that <code>exiftool</code>, an awesome perl utility I&rsquo;ve used for years to edit/extract the metadata on the command line, can also do this natively. So my entire program can be replaced with this simple command:</p>