mindlessLump

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Check out exif tool. You could also incorporate jq a command line json parser, to extract data from the json file. If you are trying to do higher level sorting/organization, you may consider using a scripting language other than bash/zsh. Guaranteed there is a Python package for reading exif data.

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My First Regular Expressions

I’ve been reading Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, and since nobody in my life (aside from my wife) cares, I thought I’d share something I’m pretty proud of. My first set of regular expressions, that I wrote myself to manipulate the text I’m working with....

mindlessLump,

I’ll have to check out this book. Just remember HTML cannot be parsed with regex

What's an elegant way of automatically backing up the contents of a large drive to multiple smaller drives that add up to the capacity of the large drive? (on Linux)

So I have a nearly full 4 TB hard drive in my server that I want to make an offline backup of. However, the only spare hard drives I have are a few 500 GB and 1 TB ones, so the entire contents will not fit all at once, but I do have enough total space for it. I also only have one USB hard drive dock so I can only plug in one...

mindlessLump,

You could create a Python script to do this. There is a library called psutil that would help. Basically,

  • iterate over mounted drives and see how much each has available
  • based on these values, iterate over your backup files and separate them into chunks that will fit on each drive
  • copy chunks to respective drives

Would be a fun little project even for a beginner I think.

mindlessLump,

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