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The script will take a directory tree containing jpg images, read the EXIF Time/Date stamp from each image, then sort the images into a directory.
It will either make a single numbered set of images (0001.jpg, 0002.jpg, 0003.jpg, etc.) in the destination directory, or will create a sub directory in the destination directory for each date (YYYY-MM-DD) and then create a numbered set in each dated directory.
If using sub directories, files that do not have an EXIF Time/Date stamp will be sorted into the 9999-99-99 sub directory.
If not using sub directories, files that do not have an EXIF Time/Date stamp will be put at the end of the file set.

Version 2.0 uploaded 2011-03-01.
Version 2.0 now checks for files named .jpg and .jpeg to process.
Version 2.0 will properly handle files with the “$” character in the name.

picsort.pl is copyright Mark D. Montgomery II and is provided under the GPL 3 or later license.

This script is provided as is with no warranty implied or expressed, use at your own risk.

Note: This script WILL OVERWRITE DESTINATION FILES without asking, so be sure to specify your destination directory correctly.

Program Syntax: picsort.pl [start directory] [destination directory] [use sub dirs (Y/N)]

Example Syntax: picsort.pl MyPics SortedPics Y

• perl
• List::MoreUtils
• Term::ANSIColor (to support color output of the help information)
• find
• ls
• exiftool
• mkdir
• cp

• Generate an array containing the full tree structure to process
• Walk the array and process each directory
  • Read the directory
  • Process each file found
    • Check if the file is a jpg or not to determine whether to process it
    • Read the EXIF date/time information
    • Parse the information and create variables for date and time parts
    • Write the date and time and filename into a files array
• Process the files array
  • Sort the array
  • Create the destination directory if it does not exist
  • Check if we are creating sub directories or not
    • If not using sub directories (Need to check this function to make sure they really are in order)
      • Create a counter variable
      • Walk through the array
      • Copy each file to the destination filename based on the current counter
    • If using sub directories
      • Walk the files array and push the dates into a dates array
      • Uniq the dates array
      • Walk the dates array and create the directories
      • Create counter and last-used date variables
      • Walk the files array
        • Determine the destination directory for the file
        • Determine if the file date is different from the previous file date to see if we are in a new dated set or not
          • If the date is different, set the counter back to one to start a new set
        • Update the last-used-date variable
        • Copy the file to the appropriate name in the appropriate directory
        • Update the counter variable

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