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ExifTool => Newbies => Topic started by: gilhin on January 15, 2022, 06:59:15 PM

Title: Reading date from six digit date group/ four digit time group
Post by: gilhin on January 15, 2022, 06:59:15 PM
Dear,
I am currently trying to get a hold of a bunch of fotos out of different sources.
One of these sources named the files in the convention

YYmmdd-HHmmss.jpg (like 161108-122352 for a foto taken on November 08, 2016)

or even

YYmmdd-HHmm.jpg (like the one before, "just" without the seconds)

Can I get ExifTool to read these defined date/ time groups?

Thank you for your feedback,
best regards

Gilhin
Title: Re: Reading date from six digit date group/ four digit time group
Post by: StarGeek on January 15, 2022, 07:02:10 PM
Try
exiftool "-AllDates<20 $Filename 00" /path/to/files/
Title: Re: Reading date from six digit date group/ four digit time group
Post by: gilhin on January 15, 2022, 07:11:41 PM
Wow - that was quick.
Thanks for that.

However, tried it and got the following output...

Code Select
Warning: No writable tags set from /path/to/file

and

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Warning: Invalid tag name '20  00'. Use '=' not '<' to assign a tag value /path/to/file

Any idea?
Title: Re: Reading date from six digit date group/ four digit time group
Post by: StarGeek on January 15, 2022, 07:43:46 PM
Use single quotes if you're using Mac/Linux/Powershell.
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