thoughts on sorting files into sub-folders by access date?

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Steve Franks wrote:

> My high-end point&shoot camera likes to glob all my photos in a single
> folder, and it's glutting up my drive, and makes finding a specific
> trip unpleasant, with no good place for metadata.  My SLR sorts them
> into folders by date, which I love.
>
> I can't find anything close googling, so I d/l a bunch of perl
> examples.  Before I figure this out in python (I'm a hardware
> developer by trade, so that seems most sensible [libc doesn't seem to
> have any os-agnostic way of playing with file times, no?])...
>
> I thought I'd check if there's some trivially simple way of doing this
> with bash & find first.

The EXIF data is a better source for the date.  graphics/py-exif, for 
example.