Find Photos Taken During A Certain Time Range

Limbic~Region has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All,
I am looking for a little help with a File::Find::Rule and Image::ExifTool script. My environment is Windows but I only have Perl available via Cygwin. I have a bunch of hard drives in this machine collected over the years so a manual search has proven to be untenable.

Search all files with a .jpg or .jpeg extension (case insensitive)
Once found, check to see when the photo was taken.
If taken in 2015, give me the path to the file and the date the picture was taken

I haven't really coded in years so while this once seemed like a trivial task, I am having issues getting the expected results.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find::Rule;
use Image::ExifTool qw(:Public);

my $tool = Image::ExifTool->new();


for my $file (File::Find::Rule->file()->name( qr/\.(jpeg|jpg)$/i)->in(
+'/')) {
    my $info = ImageInfo($file, 'DateTimeOriginal');
    my $date = $info->{DateTimeOriginal};
    next if ! $date || $date !~ /^2015/;
    print "$file\t$date\n";
}
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When I tried it in my home directory as a test, it did exactly what I expected but when I changed '.' to '/' it started generating every file on the system (directories, text files, etc.) without the date.

Cheers - L~R

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Re: Find Photos Taken During A Certain Time Range by haukex (Archbishop) on Jul 30, 2020 at 19:18 UTC
When I tried it in my home directory as a test, it did exactly what I expected but when I changed '.' to '/' it started generating every file on the system (directories, text files, etc.) without the date. That seems strange; I don't have Cygwin but I can't reproduce the issue on Linux, so it could maybe have something to do with the interaction of Cygwin and File::Find::Rule. Is the code you showed here exactly what you're running? Unless another Monk with Cygwin can reproduce the issue and find out what's wrong, you may need to look into it yourself. As a start, perhaps reduce your code even further, since it doesn't sound like it has to do with Image::ExifTool. The following seems to work fine on my system: `use warnings; use strict; use File::Find::Rule; my $rule = File::Find::Rule->file->name(qr/\.jpe?g$/i)->start('/'); while ( defined( my $file = $rule->match ) ) { print "$file\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Find Photos Taken During A Certain Time Range by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 30, 2020 at 19:37 UTC
Marginal cygwin experience, but maybe explicitly iterate over the drives mapped using something like this? `for my $drive (glob(q{/cygdrive/*})) { for my $file ( File::...as before...->in( $drive ) ) { ## as before } }` [download] The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Find Photos Taken During A Certain Time Range by flexvault (Monsignor) on Jan 08, 2021 at 21:24 UTC
Dear Limbic~Region, I put a ".jpeg" and a ".jpg" dummy files in the '/' directory and your script didn't find either. I did this after running the script for a half hour without finding anything and I have lots of ".jpg" files on my Window 10 system, so I suspect the cygwin version "File::Find::Rule" may have a problem. I use the X windows environment on Win10 to connect to Linux systems. Regards...Ed "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply]
Re: Find Photos Taken During A Certain Time Range by bliako (Abbot) on Jul 30, 2020 at 19:23 UTC
What you posted seems OK to me for searching from the root dir (i.e. `->in('/')`). If you changed to this `File::Find::Rule->file()->name( qr/\/(jpeg\|jpg)$/i)->in('/')` then it should start looking from '/' but it should not match anything interesting. Edit: in linux	[reply] [d/l] [select]