photo_rename

Utility for renaming photo files with easy to organize file names.

Features

• Multiple file name formats to choose from
  • Long - minimize file name collisions by including camera serial number in the file name
  • Short - date and file number combined in a short file name that allows for long descriptions
  • Info - encoded and original date and file number, sortable by camera serial number
  • Canon - return image files to the original file name assigned by Canon cameras
• Allows for manual entry of the camera serial number in when it can not be obtained from the image file
• Organizing files to subdirectories based on extension
• Batch adding desciption suffix to file names
• Logging script execution to user data directory

Usage

Basic usage moving CR2 files to a subdirectory and renaming in the long format:

  photo_rename -f long -o CR2

Get the description of available options

  photo_rename --man

Install dependencies

See http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html

Runtime:

  sudo apt install perl-doc
  cpan arybase DateTime File::HomeDir Image::ExifTool Log::Log4perl Math::Fleximal Time::Piece Term::ProgressBar Digest::SHA1

Development:

  sudo apt install libperl-dev
  cpan PAR::Packer

Package for distribution:

  pp -o photo_rename(.exe) photo_rename.pl

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request