EXIF date from filename with no standard date format

[GNU_Linux]

Hi to everyone.

I have a directory with a large number of files (with no EXIF info) named like this:

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P04-22-07_15.08[1].jpg
P04-22-07_15.16.jpg
P04-22-07_15.16[1].jpg
P04-22-07_15.17.jpg
P04-22-07_15.17[1].jpg
P04-22-07_16.18.jpg
P04-22-07_17.58.jpg
P04-22-07_18.00.jpg
P04-22-07_18.00[1].jpg


Date and time are in format mm-dd-yy_HH.MM

I want to add "Date/Time Original" info to all my files. I tried with:

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exiftool '-createdate<filename' -d 'P%m-%d-%y_%H.%M' P*.jpg but I gotten this error:

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Warning: Invalid date/time (use YYYY:mm:dd HH:MM:SS[.ss][+/-HH:MM|Z]) in ExifIFD:CreateDate (PrintConvInv)

I use a GNU/Linux distro.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

[Phil Harvey]

Your command works for me using your example file names and these library versions:

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> exiftool -ver -v
ExifTool version 11.26
Perl version 5.018002 (-C0)
Platform: darwin
Optional libraries:
  Archive::Zip                 1.62
  Compress::Zlib               2.06
  Digest::MD5                  2.52
  Digest::SHA                  5.84_01
  IO::Compress::Bzip2          2.060
  POSIX::strptime              0.13
  Unicode::LineBreak           (not installed)
  IO::Compress::RawDeflate     2.060
  IO::Uncompress::RawInflate   2.060

Check your ExifTool and POSIX::strptime version.  Updating to the most recent version of these should fix the problem.

- Phil

[GNU_Linux]

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Updating to the most recent version of these should fix the problem.
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Thank you Mr. Harvey, I solved.