exiftool: move only photos in root folder

[dabozz]

Hi,
I'm using exiftool to sort family photos and videos by month:

exiftool -d %Y-%m "-directory<datetimeoriginal" *
exiftool -d %Y-%m "-directory<createdate" *

So that I have folders of 2024-01, 2024-02, ... Next to the folders I have newly created photos and videos constantly streaming in. When I want to sort them into the monthly subfolders by the before mentioned commands, exiftool scans all the subfolders, taking a long time.

How can I modify the commands to only search and sort the current folder and not the subfolders?

[Phil Harvey]

1. Change the "*" to a "." so you don't process the directories too. (The "*" included the directories, which you don't want.  The "." represents only the current directory.)

2. Combine the two commands into one:

exiftool -d %Y-%m "-directory<createdate" "-directory<datetimeoriginal" .

- Phil

[dabozz]

Thanks Phil!
It worked (not that I suspected it won't!)