MadMan2k
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Joined: April 2005 |
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Posted: April 06 2005,05:12 |
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First off, I'm fairly new here, just registered to post in another topic earlier today.
I just checked out DSL on sunday, and I'm very impressed so far. Great job, and props to everyone who worked on it.
I have this old laptop, 166MHz, 80mb RAM. Runs perfectly with DSL from CD, even mounts my CF card on the PCMCIA adapter with no probs.
What I'd like to do is set it up to transfer photos from the card and remove the photos it transferred, but above all not delete any single copies of image files. I think I could set up a script to copy the files and clear the image directories without too much trouble.
Ideally, it would be installed to HD, boot quickly, no GUI, and I could init the script using the keyboard, transferring possibly a couple hundred photos to the drive in corresponding folders (Not the hugest deal, but it's nifty).
The tricky part: Image viewing. I'd like to be able to do as much as possible without using a mouse, since the touchpad does not work, and I'd rather not find room for a mouse and go through that trouble if it could be avoided by some programming beforehand.
The xZGV image viewer is great, but would it be possible to launch that from the command line, navigate through the images, then have it close without using the mouse any?
Thumbnailed browsing with the keyboard would be super, but... does such a program exist?
The directory path on the CF card which will contain the images is:
/DCIM/xxxCANON(119, 120, 121, etc)/IMG_0001.jpg
What I'd like to do is obtain the number of the directory, such as 119, then create a corresponding folder on the HD, copy each image file, and delete each image file. Is there a way to do this in bash?
This whole project isn't super important... I made do with windows and copying the images over manually, but it's just not nifty enough, know what I mean?
I'm just kind of mapping it out at this point, once I get stuff figured out, I'll implement it. I think it'll be a learning experience, and I can certainly stand to learn a lot about linux 
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