Bulk Rename Utility

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!

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 ."

Thanks very much, I will try that.

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.