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Last updated: 2014-12-25

mdfind commands

Find all the file types in a given directory

mdfind -attr kMDItemContentType "kMDItemContentType == '*'" -onlyin . | awk -F"kMDItemContentType =" '{print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

Get Last 5 Files Added in Dropbox Folders

Last updated: 2017-03-18

Searching for Files

Find images in a directory that don't have a DateTimeOriginal

exiftool -filename -filemodifydate -createdate -r -if '(not $datetimeoriginal) and $filetype eq "JPEG"' .

###Output photos that don't have datetimeoriginal to a CSV### Note this can take a long time if you have a lot of jpgs