recursively changing .MOV & .MP4 file names to CreateDate in multiple nested dir

[clem]

I've figured out how to do a simple set of filename changing exercises, but now I'm trying to chain this all together to go through a set of folders/directories recursively.

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exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -ext MOV -d "%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S.%%e" /Volumes/Videos/2018/09/01/*.MOV
exiftool "-FileName<CreateDate" -ext mp4 -d "%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S.%%e" /Volumes/Videos/2018/09/01/*.mp4


Where do I add the -r recursion if I want to go through all my 2018 year directories?

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exiftool -r "-FileName<CreateDate" -ext MOV -d "%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S.%%e" /Volumes/Videos/2018/*.MOV
exiftool -r "-FileName<CreateDate" -ext mp4 -d "%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S.%%e" /Volumes/Videos/2018/*.mp4


doesn't seem to do it.

Is there a way to concatenate these two commands into a single set as well as do the recursion?

thanks as always for tips and suggestions

[Phil Harvey]

For -r to work, you need to specify a directory name.  The purpose of -ext is to specify the type of files to process in a directory.  Specifying -ext MOV with *.MOV as a file argument is redundant.  Try this:

exiftool "-testname<createdate" -ext mov -ext mp4 -r -d "%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S.%%e" /Volumes/Videos/2018

If this shows the names that you want, then replace "testname" with "filename" to actually rename the files.

- Phil

[clem]

 Thank you for the tip, it worked great!