Add organise-photos

README.md

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Here's a list of the most interesting ones, along with what they do and where th
  - [tldr](https://github.com/raylee/tldr) - A bash client for 
 [tldr-pages](https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr).
  - [git ignore](https://gitignore.io/) - A really useful subcommand for git that allows you to generate ignore files automagically.
+ - organise-photos - A small bash script I wrote that organises the photos in a directory by year & month.
 
 ## Disclaimer
 I don't own many of the tools in this repository. If you are an owner of one of these tools and I haven't linked to you, please let me know as I probably forgot.

organise-photos

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# This script takes all the jpg and mp4 files in a directory and
+# organises them into a folder structure based on the month and year
+# they were last modified (taken).
+
+for filename in *.jpg *.mp4
+do
+	echo -ne "Processing ${filename} - ";
+	takenYear=$(date -r "${filename}" +%Y);
+	takenMonth=$(date -r "${filename}" +%-m);
+	takenMonthText=$(date -r "${filename}" +%B);
+	
+	newFolder="${takenYear}/${takenMonth}-${takenMonthText}/";
+	newFilename="${newFolder}${filename}";
+	
+	echo -ne "filing in ${newFolder} - ";
+	
+	mkdir -p "${newFolder}";
+	mv "${filename}" "${newFilename}";
+	
+	echo Done\!;
+done
+
+echo "*** Complete! ***"