APM: Perl GIF Integrity Check?

David Bluestein II dbii at interaction.net
Wed Dec 1 01:03:24 CST 2004


Okay, weird problem. I've got a directory of a pile of thumbnails on server a, that is rsync'd to server b. Now some of the GIF files on server a are bad (same filesize, modify date, etc.) due to a disk problem and cannot be viewed. Is there a way in Perl that I can validate which files on server a are not valid GIF files? I want to delete them and restore from server b which has valid copies, but do not want to restore all the files.

I basically need:

for (@filelist) {
unless (validatefileisvalidgif ($_) {
unlink $_;
}
}

Anyone know of a quick validefileisvalidgif function/module? I'd even settle for a shell script.

David

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