A script using bash and md5sum to keep track of file integrity.
# Change the separator to allow for filenames containing spaces
# (the default is " \t\n", which confuses the for loop)
IFS=$'\n'
FOLDERS=`find /Volumes/disk\ 1/Pictures/Photos -type d | sed 's/ /\\ /g'`
for FOLDER in $FOLDERS; do
# mind you, this will only work with absolute pathnames
if [ -d $FOLDER ]; then
echo "$0: INFO: Processing" $FOLDER
cd $FOLDER
for FILE in `ls -1|grep -i .jpg`; do
echo "$0: INFO: Checking $FILE"
djpeg -outfile /dev/null $FILE
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$0: ERROR: $FOLDER/$FILE is unreadable as JPEG"
fi
done
if [ -e MD5SUMS ]; then
md5sum -b -c MD5SUMS 2>&1 > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
echo "$0: ERROR: in $FOLDER:"
md5sum -c MD5SUMS | grep FAILED 2>&1
fi
else
echo "$0: WARNING: no MD5SUMS in $FOLDER, creating..."
md5sum -b *.* > MD5SUMS
# The obvious bit, in retrospect
chown username:groupname MD5SUMS
fi
fi
done