Pastable version of Sorting and archiving 1600 images...

<pre class='prettyprint' language='shell-unix-generic'>#!/bin/bash

# Get into the right folder
cd ~/Website\ Photographs/

# Create input folder
if [[ ! -d &quot;input&quot; ]]; then
	mkdir -p input
fi

# Create sorted images folder
if [[ ! -d &quot;sorted&quot; ]]; then
	mkdir -p sorted
fi

# Create archives folder
if [[ ! -d &quot;archives&quot; ]]; then
	mkdir -p archives
fi

# Create fake image files to process for testing purposes
for i in `seq 1 20`; do
	touch input/ironbark-hi_res-${i}.jpg;
	touch input/ironbark-lo_res-${i}.jpg;
	touch input/ironbark-preview-${i}.jpg;
	touch input/ironbark-thumbnail-${i}.jpg;
done

# Count fake image files
CI=`ls input/ | wc -w`;
echo &quot;Created ${CI} fake image files...&quot;

# Sort the files automatically into folders
for f in input/*.jpg; do
	DIR=`echo ${f} | cut -d '-' -f 3`;
	DIR=`echo ${DIR} | cut -d '.' -f 1`;
	if [[ ! -d &quot;sorted/${DIR}&quot; ]]; then
		mkdir -p sorted/${DIR};
	fi
	mv ${f} sorted/${DIR};
done

# Count sorted sub folders
CS=`ls sorted/ | wc -w`;
echo &quot;Sorted ${CI} fake image files into ${CS} sub folders...&quot;;

# Jump into the sorted folder and archive stuff
cd sorted/

# Proceed to archive the contents of sorted 10 folders at a time
ls -1 | sort -g | xargs -L10 | while read first rest
do
	zip -9r ../archives/archive_${first}.zip ${first} ${rest}
        rm -rf ${first} ${rest}
done

# Get out of sorted
cd ..</pre>
<pre class='prettyprint' language='shell-unix-generic'>on run
    tell app &quot;Terminal&quot;
        activate
        display dialog &quot;This will sort and archive all the images in folder: ~/Website Photographs.\nAre you sure you want to continue?&quot;
        do script &quot;bash ~/sort_pics.sh&quot;
    end tell
end run</pre>
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