

It can also work with a host of proprietary formats: Adobe InDesign Documents, Visio drawings, many RAW formats, and more. So the program doesn't just handle the file formats where you can process metadata already (PDF, MP3 and JPG, say). %y%m%d-%H%M%S%%-03.c.%%e is the format to rename the file.įor Example: This would rename a file taken on Feb 1, 2021, at 14:08 to is a command line tool which allows you to view, edit and write metadata in a lengthy list of file types: audio, video, images, documents, archives and more.-d sets the format for date/ time values.-filenameHere we will take advantage of the exiftool to segregate/ rename all the raw files present inside the current folder and it’s subfolder according to the exif tag of metadata Create Date and Time. Suppose you are working for a photography firm and you clicked photos for many events but the photos got mixed and now manually segregating each image will require a lot of wasted effort. Renaming Image Files According to their Creation Date We can see the images are moved into a new folder with the year and then month-day subfolders.Ģ. exiftool '-Directory
