You can use this perl script.

$ mass-par2repair alt.binaries.*

Where arguments are directories, NOT files.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Copyright (C) 2005 Anthony DeRobertis (netnews at derobert d0t net)

#

# This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

# (at your option) any later version.

# This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

# along with this file; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

sub run_par(@);

my %results = ();

foreach my $dir (@ARGV) {

opendir DH, $dir or die “Could not open directory $dir: $!”;

my %par_files = ();

my %segment_files = ();

foreach my $file (readdir DH) {

my $base = undef;

if ($file =~ /.par2?$/i) {

if ($file =~ /^(.+)\.vol\d+\+\d+\.par2?$/i) {

$base = $1;

} elsif ($file =~ /^(.+)\.par2?/i) {

$base = $1;

} else {

die “Failed to find basename of $file.”;

}

push @{$par_files{$base}}, $file;

} elsif ($file =~ /^(.+)\.\d\d\d$/) {

$base = $1;

push @{$segment_files{$base}}, $file;

}

}

foreach my $key (keys %par_files) {

print “$key:\n “;

print join(“\n “, @{$par_files{$key}}), “\n”;

my @args = ();

foreach my $file (@{$par_files{$key}}, @{$segment_files{$key}}) {

push @args, “$dir/$file”;

}

my $retcode = run_par(@args);

if ($retcode == -1) {

die “Could not exec par2: $!”;

} elsif ($retcode == 0) {

#$results{$dir}->{$key} = ‘OK’;

print ” OK.\n\n”

} else {

$results{$dir}->{$key} = “FAILED ($retcode).”;

print ” FAILED ($retcode)\n\n”;

}

}

closedir DH;

}

print “\n\n\n”;

foreach my $dir (keys %results) {

print “SUMMARY FOR $dir:\n”;

foreach my $file (sort keys %{$results{$dir}}) {

print “\t$file: ” . $results{$dir}->{$file} . “\n”;

}

print “\n”;

}

sub run_par(@) {

my $pid = fork();

if ($pid == -1) {

return -1;

} elsif ($pid == 0) {

open STDOUT, ‘+>’, ‘/dev/null’ or die “> /dev/null failed: $!”;

exec {‘par2′} ‘par2′, ‘r’, ‘–’, @_;

die “Exec of par2 failed: $!”;

} else {

waitpid($pid, 0);

return $?;

}

}

########END OF PERL SCRIPT #############

As you noticed, I’ve messed up all the formatting but it still works. If you want the original file, contact the author, his address is in the headers.

So, to batch-repair everything in a directory you can also simply type :

for i in *.par2; do par2repair $i; done

This will work 99% of the time, since usually the first par2 file of the a set ( the smallest one ) is not capitalized, whereas the rest if them are.

To make it work 100% of the time, you can do this :

for i in *.[pP][aA][rR]2; do par2 r $i; done

But beware, this is a brutal, it will run par2repair everytime for every par2 file in the recovery set.

( thanks to the anonymous poster )

Please drop a comment if you have a question or new software to plug !