photo-stats

commit 09cd1ab4ea7adcb19f620c64bc2ad11484cb72e6
parent cd7f7e95511224a22225c5c7273d672800a0357e
Author: René Wagner <rwagner@rw-net.de>
Date:   Thu, 30 Jul 2020 21:15:31 +0200

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 # Simple Photo Stats
 
-This project is about a small project providing some stats of your photography.
+This project is about a small tool providing some stats of your photography.
 
-It is mainly a small [SQlite](https://sqlite.org) database that stores the data which is extracted from the exif data of your images using [exiftool](https://exiftool.org/) and provides some predefined statistics about the data.   
+It is mainly a selfcontained [SQlite](https://sqlite.org) database that stores the data which is extracted from the exif data of your images using [exiftool](https://exiftool.org/) and provides some predefined statistics about the data which can be queried with the tool itself or a database tool like [SQLiteStudio](https://sqlitestudio.pl/).   
 
 ## requirements
 The famous `exiftool` needs to be installed on your system.
 
-### bare scripts
+### using binary 
+There are prebuilt binarys (currently x86\_64 linux only) and packages for Arch Linux and derivatives available for [every ref](https://git.sr.ht/~rwa/photo-stats/refs).
+
+### using bare scripts
 Simply clone the repo or manually download the scripts from https://git.sr.ht/~rwa/photo-stats/
 
-To run a script, open a shell and invoke `perl script.pl`, on most systems it should be sufficient to just invoke `script.pl` (after you granted execute-permissions to the script).
-Prerequisites for running the pure scripts
+To run the script, open a shell and invoke `perl phosta.pl`, on most systems it should be sufficient to just invoke `phosta.pl` (after you granted execute-permissions to the script).
+
+#### prerequisites for running the pure scripts
 
 - Perl 5.30 (or newer)
 
@@ -23,6 +27,9 @@ Additionally the following perl modules need to be installed:
 - File::HomeDir
 - File::Spec::Functions
 
+## usage
+
+
 ## available stats
 - pictures by lens
 - pictures by camera body
@@ -37,5 +44,8 @@ The stats are available as grouped counts by
 - by month
 
 ## FAQ
-- I have my images on a network share, how can i include them into the stats?   
-You should mount the share and use is like a local directory?
+- I have my images on a network share, how can i include them into the stats?    
+You should mount the share and use is like a local directory.
+
+- Can i add different folders to the statistics?   
+Omit the `-c` param when populating the database to avoid cleaning up old values. The tool will take care that now duplicates are added.