Photopy is a command line tool that imports media files into a nice directory layout.
Example:
photopy -from /media/UsbStick -to ~/Photos -max-procs 3 -dry-run -try-exiftool
The directory layout is guessed from the EXIF creation date. EXIF metadata is
provided by libexif or exiftool.
This is an example of how the final directory layout would look like:
cd ~/Photos
find .
.
./2011
./2011/03-March
./2011/03-March/06-Sunday
./2011/03-March/06-Sunday/092033-ABC2.jpg
./2011/03-March/06-Sunday/092229-DC31.jpg
./2011/03-March/13-Sunday
./2011/03-March/13-Sunday/021937-C2EB.jpg
./2011/03-March/13-Sunday/040807-95A3.jpg
./2011/03-March/13-Sunday/040823-9CD8.jpg
./2011/10-October/25-Tuesday
./2011/10-October/25-Tuesday/214139-C762.jpg
./2011/10-October/25-Tuesday/214342-3619.jpg
...
go get github.com/xiam/photopy
photopy -help
If you want photopy to be able to read metadata for almost any kind of file
(not just photos) you'll need exiftool. Download and install it from
http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
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