pictor-unload(1)

💖 NAME 💖

pictor-unload — the girlies' fave way to unload pictures from a SOURCE removable media over to a DESTINATION directory, and rename each file, prepending the timestamp. Yes bestie, it does the whole glow-up for you 💅

Oh and also — hi, this is the pictor-unload(1) page, section 1 of the pictor manual. Okay so let's get into it 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pictor-unload SOURCE DESTINATION

That's it. Two args. She's low maintenance, she's iconic 👑

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically, pictor-unload is your little utility bestie for unloading pictures off removable media, collating them, and interleaving them with all your other pictures. It's giving organized. It's giving main character file management 😌

The tool takes two arguments: the SOURCE directory, and the DESTINATION directory.

Every single file in the SOURCE directory gets copied over to the DESTINATION directory — and it preserves all attributes while doing it, no cap 🫶. Then, at the destination, the file gets renamed: a timestamp in the form of "YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS__" gets prepended to the front of the filename. That timestamp is taken to be the file's original modification time, as determined by the stat(1) utility. A "double-underscore", ie, "__", separates the timestamp from the original filename. Separator behavior: immaculate.

File permissions at the destination get adjusted too — the executable bit gets removed. Why? Because that bit is typically set in the source, since the source is usually a VFAT filesystem. Not her fault, she's just fixing the vibe ✨

💡 Fr fr: if you perfectly synchronize the embedded clock on each of several cameras, you can use pictor-unload to conveniently combine and interleave pictures from all of those cameras. Multi-camera timeline? Ate.

The SOURCE directory also gets renamed, appending the current timestamp to the folder — thus noting "when" these pictures were unloaded 📅. And heads up: your camera will create a new directory on the media when you take a new picture. So pictor-unload assumes that it is your right and your responsibility to delete pictures from the media or reformat the card. That part is on you, bestie 😭

Finally — and this is the part where she asks permission — if the source directory is in /media, then you are prompted, asking if you want to unmount the source filesystem. Note that this will required root privileges via sudo(8) 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• stat(1)
• sudo(8)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.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.

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Okay that's the whole page, you're fully caught up 💜 This was pictor, dated 24 Sep 2010, for pictor-unload(1) — go unload some pics, you got this 🎀