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#Had to organize my photos based on EXIF metadata. 

#Visualize tags per group. It provides the tag name as command for further actions:
exiftool -a -G [file]


#To move/rename photos based on CreateDate EXIF tag use:
exiftool -o .  '-Directory<CreateDate' -d /path/%Y/%m -r [pics_to_organize] 2> error.log
# -o .: copies instead of moving. Get rid of it if you want to move instead.
# -d /path/%Y/%m: it will create a year/month directory if it doesn't exist  based on the CreateDate file EXIF metadata.
# -r [pics_to_organize]: path to fetch all the pics recursively.
# 2> error.log: redirect errors for files which don't have an EXIF tag.

The following example will copy pics recursively from the directory ./photos to ~/pics/%Y/%m based on the file CreateDate Exif metadata.
exiftool -o .  '-Directory<CreateDate' -d ~/pics/%Y/%m -r ./photos/ 2> error.log


If the EXIF metadata doesn't exist, organize based on other tags or create a manual script.