exifrename |

exifrename renames or copies files based on EXIF data.

Installation

cargo install exifrename

Usage

See --help for more information on how to populate -f FORMAT and other available options. An example invocation is:

% exifrename --copy \
>  -f "$HOME/Photos/{camera_make}/{year}{month}{day}_{hour}{minute}{second}" \
>  /mnt/sdcard/*.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0001.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184547_0.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0002.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184547_1.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0003.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184548_0.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0004.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184548_1.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0005.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184548_2.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0006.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184548_3.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0007.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184551.jpg
/mnt/sdcard/P0008.jpg -> /home/cdown/Photos/FUJIFILM/20230126_184802.jpg
[...]

You can also see what would be changed first using --dry-run.

Performance

exifrename has a strong focus on performance. On a sample modern laptop with a mid-spec SSD, we take ~0.02 seconds to produce new names for over 5000 files with the format {year}{month}{day}_{hour}{minute}{second}.