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Bash script for setting exif photo date according to filename. Created for whatsapp images can be easily adjusted for every filename patterns.
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#!/bin/bash | |
set -e #Exit as soon as any line in the bash script fails | |
imageCounter=0 | |
for filename in *.jpg | |
do | |
imageCounter=$((imageCounter+=1)) | |
#extracting info from file name | |
year="${filename:4:4}" | |
month="${filename:8:2}" | |
day="${filename:10:2}" | |
#setting exif timestamp into file | |
exiv2 -M"set Exif.Image.DateTime $year:$month:$day" $filename | |
#set the file last modified timestamp | |
touch -t "$year$month$day""1500" $filename | |
done | |
echo "successfully set the correct timestamp in $imageCounter images" |
Hi.
I was trying to sort this problem out and found this code which helped me a lot. It worked like charm without changing anything.
I have 100-s of photos with right date-time on their names, but wrong in exif data.
I tried to modify this code to set the "time" stamp as in the photo's name, but could not make it work.
I stuck on error: "touch: invalid date format ‘20220412 200618’"
The example file I am trying this on is "IMG_20220412_200618.jpg"
I declared 3 more variables: $hour, $min, $sec, then tweak around, but no luck.
Please, give me a clue how to implement this.
Thanks for your code =)
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Hi federicoB,
Please help me.