From c7877eff748e97a879f22da4df758a93a669730d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jim kolpack <james.kolpack@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 22:45:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Sort JPEGs by size descending before resizing

---
 images_resize.sh | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/images_resize.sh b/images_resize.sh
index dc75643..f8d1910 100755
--- a/images_resize.sh
+++ b/images_resize.sh
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ source "$SCRIPT_DIR/config.sh"
 
 echo "Resizing large JPGs in $(pwd)"
 
-find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*\.(jpg|JPG|JPEG|jpeg)$" -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' f
-do
+find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*\.(jpg|JPG|JPEG|jpeg)$" -printf '%s\t%p\0' | \
+    sort -z -t$'\t' -k1,1rn | \
+    while IFS=$'\t' read -r -d '' _size f; do
     # Skip files already processed with these parameters
     COMMENT=$(~/Applications/magick identify -format "%c" "$f" 2>/dev/null)
     if [[ "$COMMENT" == "$MAGICK_COMMENT" ]]; then