pictor-rename(1)

📦 version 2.38, in ubuntu jammy

✨ pictor-rename(1) ✨

okay so this is from the pictor manual 💅 and bestie, it's short but it ATE. it's literally one job: make your picture filenames make sense. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pictor-rename — rename pictures sensibly, prepending the timestamp in YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS__* form ✨

like, it puts the when right at the front of the filename so your folder isn't just IMG_4021.JPG chaos forever. iconic behaviour, no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pictor-unload FILE1 [FILE2 FILE3 FILE4 ...]

okay yes, I know, it says pictor-unload and not pictor-rename 😭 I am literally just the messenger, I'm not touching it, it's staying exactly as written fr fr. that's the tea. 🙈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The pictor-rename utility is useful for renaming pictures, in the order of their creation timestamps. so it doesn't just rename them, it sorts the whole vibe chronologically. slay.

And listen — if you perfectly synchronize the embedded clock on each of several cameras, you can use pictor-rename to conveniently combine and interleave pictures from all of those cameras 🌈🔥 like, multiple cameras, one beautiful timeline. main character energy for real.

So how does it figure out the time, you ask? bestie, it's giving detective work:

  1. It will attempt to use exiftool(1) to read the file creation time from the picture's exif headers 💖
  2. If that fails, then it will use the file modification time as specified by stat(1) 🌱

so exif first, filesystem second. a whole fallback situation. periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read those too, they're part of the lore 💜

💌 AUTHOR 💌

This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation. 🫶

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

tiny note bestie: the synopsis really does say pictor-unload. I did not invent that, I would never. 💀

and that's the whole page, babes 🎀 pictor, 19 May 2013 — written by the pictor girlies, delivered to you with love, timestamped at the front and everything. mwah 💅💖✨

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