Use exiftool to recursively sort my images into a pre-defined folder structure. Source this file and call sortMedia

sortMedia.sh

#! /bin/bash

sortMedia() {
  EXIFTOOL=/opt/homebrew/bin/exiftool
  DEFAULT_SOURCE_DIR_PATH="./" # Current Directory
  DEFAULT_DESTINATION_DIR_PATH="/Volumes/home/Photos/" # NAS Photos
  EXIFDATETAG="${3:-CreateDate}"
  PREFIX="${4:-jwm}"
  SORT_FILETYPE="${5:-true}"
  ALLOW_DUPS="${6:-true}"
  CLEAN_SRC_DIR="${7:-false}"
  echo "Filename prefix set to: $PREFIX"
  echo "Sorting by FileType set to: $SORT_FILETYPE"

  if [ ! -e "$EXIFTOOL" ]
  then
    echo "Error: exiftool binary missing..."
    echo "Please install exiftool: brew install exiftool"
    return 255
  fi

  _src="${1:-$DEFAULT_SOURCE_DIR_PATH}"
  SOURCE_DIR_PATH=$(cd $_src 2> /dev/null && pwd -P)
  if [ -d "$SOURCE_DIR_PATH" ]
  then
    echo "Sorting through directory: $SOURCE_DIR_PATH"
  else
    echo "ERROR: Source directory is not a valid directory"
    return 255
  fi

  _dest="${2:-$DEFAULT_DESTINATION_DIR_PATH}"
  DESTINATION_DIR_PATH=$(cd $_dest 2> /dev/null && pwd -P)
  if [ -d "$DESTINATION_DIR_PATH" ]
  then
    echo "Moving to destination: $DESTINATION_DIR_PATH"
  else
    echo "ERROR: Destination directory is not a valid directory"
    return 255
  fi

  run_exiftool() {
    _format="$DESTINATION_DIR_PATH"            
    _format+="\${$1#;DateFmt('/%Y/%Y-%m-%d/')}"       # Folder Structure based on Date e.g.: /2022/2002-08-23/
    if [ "$SORT_FILETYPE" = true ]; then
      _format+="\${FileType;s/([A-Za-z]+)/\L\$1\E/}/" # Folder Structure based on File Type e.g.: /2022/2002-08-23/JPEG/
    fi
    _format+="$PREFIX-"                               # Prefix for filename e.g.: 20221231-1 -> jwm-20221231-1
    _format+="\${$1#;DateFmt('%Y%m%d')}"              # Add Date to file name e.g.: jwm-20221231-1
    _format+="\${FileName;"                           # Start original FileName manipulation
    _format+="s/$PREFIX-*\d{4,8}-*//g;"               # Account for any existing formatted filenames e.g.: jwm-1231-111 -> 111
    _format+="s/([A-Za-z]+)\s+/\L\$1-/g;"             # Convert sentence style filename to hyphen case e.g.: This file name.jpg -> this-file-name.jpg
    _format+="s/[A-Z0_\.]*/-/;"                       # Remove Camera default Prefix e.g.: DSC0_111 -> -111
    _format+="s/_/-/g;"                               # Convert any _'s to dashes '-' e.g.: DSC0_111_1_1 -> DSC0_111-1-1
    _format+="s/[.](\d)/-\$1/g;"                      # Convert any .'s followed by a number to dashes '-' e.g.: DSC0_111.11.jpg -> DSC0_111-11.jpg
    if [ "$ALLOW_DUPS" = true ]; then
      _format+="s/([.a-zA-Z]*$)/%-c\$1/;"             # Add unique sequence at the end of the filename for duplicates e.g.: DSC0_111 -> DSC0_111-1
    fi
    _format+="}"                                      # End original FileName manipulation

    # echo $_format
    # $EXIFTOOL -r -ext+ AVI -progress "-TestName<$_format" $SOURCE_DIR_PATH

    $EXIFTOOL -r -ext+ AVI -progress "-FileName<$_format" $SOURCE_DIR_PATH
  }
  run_exiftool $EXIFDATETAG


  # _remaining=$(ls $SOURCE_DIR_PATH | wc -l | tr -d " \t")
  # if [ "$_remaining" -gt 0 ]
  # then
  #   echo "Found $_remaining files to sort"
  #   echo "Processing extra files..."
  #   run_exiftool "FileModifyDate"
  # fi

  echo "Sorting Complete!"

  if [ "$CLEAN_SRC_DIR" = true ]; then
    echo "Cleaning up the contents of: $SOURCE_DIR_PATH"
    rm -rf $SOURCE_DIR_PATH/*
    echo "Done!"
  fi

  return 0
}
sortMedia "$@"