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.

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