Put directory in the filename

[hubach]

Hi.
First excuse my bad english. I hope you can understand what I mean.

I will change all the filenames of my fotos like that:

CreateDate_Directory_ActualFilename.ActualExtension

For example I will change the file 'test.jpg' from the folder 'Pics' 

With this command
exiftool -r -FileName'<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S_%%f.%%e  test.jpg

I get the result
20110709_201815_test.jpg

That's ok :-)

But with this command
exiftool -r -FileName'<DateTimeOriginal' -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S_%%d_%%f.%%e  test.jpg

I get the result
20110709_201815__test1.jpg   (here are only 2 underlines)

and not (what I will)
20110709_201815_Pics_test1.jpg

Can anyone help me with the correct syntax.

Thanx and regards

Hans

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Hans,

What you are doing won't work for 2 reasons:

1) You didn't specify a directory name for "test.jpg", so %%d is an empty string.

2) The directory will end with a slash, and writing a file name containing a slash will also change the directory.

Instead, something like this:

exiftool -r '-filename<${datetimeoriginal}_${directory;tr(/)(-)}_$filename' -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S DIR

You should specify DIR exactly as you want it to appear in the file name, and the "tr(/)(-)" function translates all "/" to "-" so the file name won't contain slashes.

- Phil

[hubach]

Hi Phil
Thank you for this quick response. I hope I understand what you mean with the DIR at the end.

I  did now the following:

I have one file: /home/myname/Pics/testpic.jpg
and another:   /home/myname/Pics/SubPics/testsubpic.jpg

I did this command:

exiftool -r '-filename<${datetimeoriginal}_${directory;tr(/)(-)}_$filename' -d %Y%m%d_%H%M%S /home/myname/Pics

(I wish to get /home/myname/Pics/20110709_201815_home-myname-Pics_testpic.jpg
and /home/myname/Pics/PicsSub/20110709_201815_home-myname-Pics-PicsSub_testsubpic.jpg

Now exiftool renamed and moved my pictures to new directories:

/home/myname/20110709_201815/home/myname/Pics/PicsSub;tr(   with the file ")(-)}_testsubpic.jpg"

and

/home/myname/20110709_201815/home/myname/Pics;tr(    with the file ")(-)}_testpic.jpg"

In the original directories /home/myname/Pics and /home/myname/Pics/PicsSub are no more files.

Do you have any idea what still goes wrong?

Regards,
Hans

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Hans,

Try updating to the current version of ExifTool.  The tr()() feature was added in version 9.15.

Any version after this should work, but you will have a leading "-" on the directory name in your file names.  You can remove this by specifying a relative directory "home/myname/Pics", or using "${directory;tr(/)(-);s(^-)()}" in your command.

- Phil

[hubach]

Hi Phil

Thanks a lot. I updated to version 9.25 and your help works great.

Regards from Switzerland

Hans