File Renaming using dates and replacing text string

[José Oliver-Didier]

Is there any way to rename files using exiftool in this form:

IMG_1234.JPG to 100331-1234.JPG

where the "IMG_" is replaced by YYMMDD

[Phil Harvey]

Sure, this command will do what you want using the date from DateTimeOriginal:

  exiftool -d %y%m%d-%%-4f.%%e "-filename<datetimeoriginal" -v FILE

where FILE is one or more file or directory names.  The %-4f takes the last 4 characters from the filename (and the extra % is necessary to get this through the date/time parsing).  I also added a -v option for verbose output so you can see what the files get renamed to.  If DateTimeOriginal isn't available, you can use CreateDate, ModifyDate or even FileModifyDate for the source date/time value.

For more information and examples of this feature, see the filename page and the -w option in the exiftool application documentation.

- Phil

[José Oliver-Didier]

thanks!