William McKeehan
William McKeehan
September 10, 2022

Update image timestamp

Update image timestamp

This script will update the file timestamp on an image to match its creation date.

find . -type f | while read PIC
do
  DATE=$(/usr/local/bin/exiftool -p '$DateTimeOriginal' "$PIC" | sed 's/[: ]//g')
  touch -t $(echo $DATE | sed 's/\(..$\)/\.\1/') "$PIC"
done