From 97a98b977494da23d1d2f7aa0cc11b0a7dc94616 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Freeman <freemanjulian372@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:45:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add sh

---
 gen_combined.sh | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 gen_combined.sh

diff --git a/gen_combined.sh b/gen_combined.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e3cdc34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gen_combined.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <md5_file_path> <target_dir>"
+    echo "Example: $0 md5_files/mybackup.md5 /Users/yourname/Backup"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+MD5_PATH="$1"
+TARGET_DIR="$2"
+
+FILENAME=$(basename "$MD5_PATH")
+
+FILE_BASENAME="${FILENAME%.*}"
+COMBINED_FILE="${FILE_BASENAME}.txt"
+
+mkdir -p "combined_files"
+
+echo "Running ./rclone check ..."
+./rclone check "$MD5_PATH" "$TARGET_DIR" --local-encoding "None" --exclude-from "exclude-list.txt" --checkfile "md5" --combined "combined_files/$COMBINED_FILE"
+
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "Success: Saved to "combined_files/$COMBINED_FILE""
+else
+    echo "Note: rclone check finished (return value might be different)"
+fi