copy files off my camera card to my pictures directory

=== Update 11/2013 ==

Sooo, I found that the below script didn’t do really what I wanted and I got a lot of files from 2012 in 2013 folders. So I’ve changed it around to use stat and maybe exif data in the future:

function rsyncFile()
{
for img in ${PATH}/*
do
echo “${img}”
ymd=`${STAT} -c %y “${img}” | ${CUT} -d’ ‘ -f1 | ${SED} -e ‘s/-/./g’`
year=`echo ${ymd} | ${AWK} -F. ‘{print $1}’`
month=`echo ${ymd} | ${AWK} -F. ‘{print $2}’`
day=`echo ${ymd} | ${AWK} -F. ‘{print $3}’`

picturesPath=/home/ryan/Pictures/${year}.${month}/${year}.${month}.${day}
${MKDIR} -p ${picturesPath}
echo ${RSYNC} -av “${img}” ${picturesPath}
${RSYNC} -av “${img}” ${picturesPath}

done

}

== End Update

Here’s a quick bash script I wrote to copy stuff from my camera memory card to my Pictures directory but so that it will create it in the format that I like:

/home/user/Pictures/year.twodigitmonth/year.twodigitmonth.twodigitday

So Feb 1st, 2013 pictures would be in directory:

/home/user/Pictures/2013.02/2013.02.01

The script is really just a function that takes 3 arguments, the month in ls format, the two digit representation of the month, and the year:

#!/bin/bash

PATH=/media/Canon_DIGITAL/DCIM/100CANON/
PICTURES=/home/user/Pictures
MONTHS="Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec"

AWK=/usr/bin/awk
GREP=/bin/grep
LS=/bin/ls
MKDIR=/bin/mkdir
RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync

function rsyncMonth()
{
  month=${1}
  numonth=${2}
  year=${3}

  echo $month $numonth $year

  for img in `${LS} -l ${PATH} |${GREP} ${month}|${AWK} '{print $NF}'`
  do 
    day=`${LS} -ld ${PATH}/${img} | ${AWK} '{print $7}'`
    if [ ${day} -lt 10 ]
    then
      day="0${day}"
    fi
    picturesPath=${PICTURES}/${year}.${numonth}/${year}.${numonth}.${day}
    ${MKDIR} -p ${picturesPath}
    ${RSYNC} -av ${PATH}/${img} ${picturesPath}
  done
}

and you would call it below the function like:

rsyncMonth Jan 01 2013

to get all the pictures off the memory card that match January 2013.