Sort by date taken - CMD utility

[steve]

Hi, I'm using the command line utility as part of a batch script to process photos from work each day.

In the GUI it is possible to first sort by date taken which works great when I have photos from multiple cameras. But I can't seem to get this to work in the CMD line utility. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance!

[Luuk]

Greetings, the CMD utility cannot see inside the exif values for date taken sort, but it can sort by the dates modified, created, accessed, and for this to use /sortby:m, /sortby:c, and /sortby:a. If it must be urgent to sort by exif values, I must recommend the exiftool, and then to use it like "exiftool -fileorder datetimeoriginal ."

[steve]

Thanks very much, I will try that.

[steve]

In case anyone else was looking to do the same thing, here is the command I used, on windows, to rename all images in the directory by EXIF creation date:

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exiftool -ext jpg "-filename<DateTimeOriginal" -d %Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S%%-c.%%le .

In my case I am using it in a batch file which means the % symbols need to be escaped first like so

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exiftool -ext jpg "-filename<DateTimeOriginal" -d %%Y-%%m-%%d-%%H-%%M-%%S%%%%-c.%%%%le .

I just inserted this line in before the line from BRC64, because I already had a working (complicated) rename command, I just needed the files to be properly sorted first.