Sorting photos and videos by their creation dates

[Bonapon]

Hi. Is there anywhere on my fedora 8 box (command line or otherwise) that I can sort my photos and videos by the dates they were taken by my Cannon MV106? With hexedit I can see the following lines, but I can't sort by it.

0000032C   00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  49 44 49 54  ........................IDIT
00000348   1A 00 00 00  53 75 6E 20  4D 61 72 20  20 32 20 31  37 3A 34 34  3A 35 37 20  32 30 30 38  ....Sun Mar  2 17:44:57 2008
00000364   0A 00 4C 49  53 54 18 00  00 00 49 4E  46 4F 49 53  46 54 0C 00  00 00 43 61  6E 6F 6E 4D  ..LIST....INFOISFT....CanonM
00000380   56 49 30 36  00 00 4A 55  4E 4B 72 04  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00  VI06..JUNKr.................

I need to sort by the creation date in order to splice my photos with my videos in a time-wise fashion.

[adrianx]

Hi,

You could try renaming your files with jhead.

su -
yum install jhead

I've never used it myself, but it looks promising. Here's a link. Hope it helps.

Edit: I've just installed jhead and tested it - and it works like a charm. I used jhead -n%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S *.jpg to rename some pictures that I took with my cellphone. Take a look at man jhead for more information. It only works with JPEGs, though.