sort picture by facetag

[exifan]

Hi, First thank you for this excellent tool. I have been playing with it for a few days and impressed with its capabilities. Still learning  :-)

I have all my pictures face tagged in Picasa (3.9). I need to share some pictures with a friend and am trying to see if exiftool can help me filter and sort them. I'd like to filter all pictures that include a particular face tag, copy them to a new folder organized by year (from creation date) and into subfolders by months (again from creation date).

Is this possible? any pointers on how to do this, much appreciated.

Thanks,

[Phil Harvey]

This should be simple.  You need to first figure out what tag the name is stored in (look through the output of "exiftool -s FILE"), then do this:

exiftool -if "$TAG =~ /NAME/i" -o . "-directory<datetimeoriginal" -d DSTDIR/%Y/%m SRCDIR

where TAG is the tag name, NAME is the person name, SRCDIR is the source directory, and DSTDIR is the directory you want them copied to.

- Phil

[exifan]

Works like a charm :-) Many thanks Phil... Had to change double quotes with single.  FYI.. is case anyone is curious, Picasa stores the face tags in RegionName, with RegionType = Face.