Can anyone recommend a tool to manage photos at the cmdline? I just want to move photos into dirs based on their metadata (YYYY/DD), occasionally fix up metadata (adjust dates), rename photo filenames to match a template and/or query my photos for certain things. It doesn’t need to be a gallery or image touch-up tool, I have other things for that.

I’m aware of exiftool and ImageMagick, perhaps they can do the job but they seem quite low level, really need to build scripts around them - I’d like something that operates at a slightly higher level so I don’t have to do too much scripting.

A quick search turned up chee (GPLv3) which can:

  • search photos using a simple query language
  • manage named queries (called collections)
  • copy/symlink images into a custom folder structure

…but it’s not had an update in a few years (maybe it’s feature complete tho!) Any other suggestions? Thanks.

  • IanTwenty@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    I think you’ve hit the nail on the head so to speak…it’s just too small/custom a thing for anyone to have built a dedicated tool it seems. In the end I am looking at using my file manager (nautlius) to automatically run a custom exiftool/bash script on chosen files so I can just click and rename/fix metadata etc as I browse through the files. Probably good enough for now.