Can anyone recommend a tool to manage photos at the cmdline? I just want to move photos into dirs based on their metadata (YYYY/DD), occasionally fix up metadata (adjust dates), rename photo filenames to match a template and/or query my photos for certain things. It doesn’t need to be a gallery or image touch-up tool, I have other things for that.

I’m aware of exiftool and ImageMagick, perhaps they can do the job but they seem quite low level, really need to build scripts around them - I’d like something that operates at a slightly higher level so I don’t have to do too much scripting.

A quick search turned up chee (GPLv3) which can:

  • search photos using a simple query language
  • manage named queries (called collections)
  • copy/symlink images into a custom folder structure

…but it’s not had an update in a few years (maybe it’s feature complete tho!) Any other suggestions? Thanks.

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Thank you for this. I think this has some of the operations I need, I will dig into the code.

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