How can I Create an individual MD5 file for each folder in a main directory?

Question

The specs for a file delivery I'm making require an individual MD5 file per folder, with the contents of that folder being inside the MD5 file. Such as:
DAY_01 (MAIN FOLDER)
A01
-(files 1-1000)
-md5 for files 1-1000
A02
-files 1001-2000
-md5 for files 1001-2000
And so on. Is there a script or program that can make those MD5 files automatically or do I hace to go and do each one individually? Thanks

Answer 1

I don't know of any pre-existing solution to your question, but it isn't hard to write one:
set theFolder to (choose folder)
tell application "System Events"
          set subfolders to every folder of theFolder
          repeat with eachFolder in subfolders
                    set fPath to (POSIX path of eachFolder)
                    set fName to name of eachFolder
                    set md5Filename to quoted form of (fName & ".md5")
                    do shell script "cd " & quoted form of fPath & "; /sbin/md5 * > " & md5Filename
          end repeat
end tell
The idea here is that it asks for a folder to process. It then grabs a list of all the folders inside that folder (subfolders), then for each subfolder it extracts its POSIX path and the folder name, then it builds a shell command that actually goes to each folder, runs the md5 command (passing in all files), writing the output to a .md5 file named according to the folder.