Yearly Archives: 2011

Rename and Rotate Digital Photos With jhead

I’ve recently been looking for a way to organize my digital photos by the date and time they were taken. Since I have more than one camera, it’s not as simple as just sorting through file names since the cameras name the files differently. I was going to write a script using Image Magick to read the EXIF data and then the script would rename and organize the photo into a folder based on the date the photo was taken. Well, it turns out that someone has already written a handy program to take care of most of this task. The program is called jheadContinue reading

Command Line Basics: View Image EXIF Data

I’ve got a huge number of digital photos on my computer that need to be organized. What I would like to do is sort the pictures by the date they were taken. The first step to sorting the pictures is to know the date they were taken. As long as the clock is properly set on your camera, your pictures should have the correct date and time of the photo stored in the image’s EXIF data. You can view an image’s EXIF data using the identify command. Continue reading

Command Line Basics: Change Your Password

Hopefully by now you understand the need to have a strong password for your computer login. Perhaps you selected your password when you first installed GNU/Linux and you’ve never changed it. Maybe you don’t even know how to change it. Today I’ll show you how to change your password from the command line. Continue reading