Series of bash scripts to sort photos or files into a /YEAR/MONTH/ file tree. There really is nothing magical about this file. It's executes a for loop, infers year and month from Exif information, and moves the file to that folder named for that year and month. It leaves you with folder sorted items, that you can move into your family's master file store.
Copy this file a folder containing unsorted photos and run in the context of that folder
cd ~/path/to/my/photos
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rgoodie/bash-pic-sorter/master/sort.via.exif.sh
chmod +x sort.via.exif.sh
./sort.via.exif.sh
After the run, you'll be left with a folder structure of ./{Year} and ./{Year}/{Month}. Copy this to any place where you store memories.
- Exiftool which may be installed via
# apt install libimage-exiftool-perl. - A little CLI know how
No warrenties given. As always, have back ups of your media and precious memories. Use at your own risk. Explore code to understand what's happening before blind use. Report back any errors, mistakes, or suggestions to Issues.