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Sun Jan  7 01:21:10 CET 2007

script to archive pics and movies

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New version of pic and movie archiver!

This new version is has been re-written to support direct
archiving of specific files as well as recursive archiving
from source to destination.

Two scenarios will probably explain what it does better
than any regular description:

You connect your digicam to the computer. You have associated
this script with that particular event, so that the script
automatically moves each jpeg and movie (avi or mov) to a
specific location on your hard disk, sorting them into
directories named after the date which the picture was taken.
archivepics.pl -c


You are cleaning up your home directory and you find some
pictures and movies you took on your digicam a while ago which
need archiving. You send them to the archive using this
script.
archivepics.pl pic1.jpg movie1.mov pic2.jpg


In both examples, the output would be something like this:


Creating directory 20060401

pic1.jpg copied to 20060401/20060401_194053_FF.jpg

Creating directory 20060328

movie1.mov copied to 20060328/20060328_114240_K.mov

pic2.jpg copied to 20060328/20060328_114256_FF.jpg



The script should work well on both Unix-like systems as
well as Windows, as long as you have Perl and some perl
modules installed. Installation notes are included in the
header of the script.

I put the script here: http://blahonga.yanson.org/scripts/archivepics.html.

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