From 9c4cd95d78e9ddbe5a1b77a5b66e0a2459aba6df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fliegerjohn <fliegerjohn@posteo.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 20:31:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] first commit

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 README.md      | 15 +++++++++++++
 name2timestamp | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 README.md
 create mode 100755 name2timestamp

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+Simple script to rename multimediafiles to the shotdate.
+
+You need to install "exiftool" on your computer!
+
+Usage:
+
+./name2timestamp /path/to/dir/with/files/
+
+Config:
+
+Please change the Variable "ending" to your needs.
+for example: ending=MTS to ending=jpg
+
+
+This scipt should rename every file "exiftool" can work with...
diff --git a/name2timestamp b/name2timestamp
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+#
+## Variables
+#
+
+# Dir of files
+dir="$2"
+
+#
+
+#
+## Main
+#
+printhelp() {                                                                   
+        echo "****
+You need to install 'exiftool' on your computer!                                
+                                                                                
+Usage:                                                                          
+                                                                                
+./name2timestamp 'fileending' /path/to/dir/with/files/
+
+For 'fileending' you can set everything exiftool can handle with, like 'jpeg' or 'MTS'.
+(And this script can find it in the given dir... :o))
+****                                      
+  "                                                             
+        exit 0                                                                                   
+}  
+
+convertfile() {
+
+# Check for exiftool                                                            
+                                                                                
+if ! [ -x "$(command -v exiftool)" ]; then                                      
+    echo 'Error: exiftool is not installed. Please install exiftool to use this script!' >&2
+    exit 1                                                                      
+fi                                                                              
+                                                                                
+# Rename file                                                                   
+                                                                                
+for file in "$dir"/*."$ending"                                                  
+do                                                                              
+    # Getting new name for file                                                 
+    shottime=`exiftool -"DateTimeOriginal" -fast -R -d "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z" -s -S "$file"`
+    newname=`date -d "$shottime" "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`                              
+    # Rename file                                                               
+    mv "$file" "$dir"/"$newname"."$ending"                                      
+    echo "renamed "$file" to "$newname"."$ending""                              
+                                                                                
+done       
+}
+
+
+#Print help if $1 is "--help" otherwise set it to fileending and start converting
+if [[ "$1" = "--help" ]]; then printhelp; else ending="$1" && convertfile; fi
+
+