Photo Manipulating Tools

Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: 2006-05-24

*Tags*: rename jpeg image by date/timestamp

> What I do is first copy the images to my system. Then I use a program
> called exiv2 to automatically rename the files using the timestamp as
> stored in their EXIF data. I suggest you do a 'wajig install exiv2' (or
> more probably 'apt-get install exiv2') and a man exiv2 to find out if
> this program meets your needs. It just might...

The jhead does the same thing. This takes all the jpg files and renames them to ISO format based upon EXIF timestamp:

jhead -nf%Y%m%d-%H%M%S *.[Jj][Pp][Gg]