Incorrect results from Md5 sum in bash shell script - linux

Question

I'm missing some images that should have been archived when this script runs. I think this may be to do with my indentations or my Md5 sum. I have tried everything I can think of.
here is the code with out the correct indentations:
#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
echo Directory "$1" cannot be found. Please try again.
exit
fi
if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
echo "usage: Phar image_path archive_path"
exit
fi
if [ -d "$2" ]; then
echo "archive exists"
else
echo "the directory 'archive' does't exist. Creating directory 'archive'."
mkdir -p ~/archive
fi
find $1 -iname "IMG_[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].JPG" | cat > list.txt
[ -f ~/my-documents/md5.txt ] && rm md5.txt || break
while read line;
do md5sum $line | xargs >> md5.txt
done < list.txt
sort -k 1,1 -u md5.txt | cat > uniquemd5.txt
cut -d " " -f 2- uniquemd5.txt > uniquelist.txt
sort uniquelist.txt -r -o uniquelist.txt
for line in $(cat uniquelist.txt)
do
file=$(basename $line) path="$2/file"
if [ ! -f $path ];
then
cp $line $2
else
cp $line $path.JPG
fi
rm uniquelist.txt md5.txt uniquemd5.txt list.txt
done

Answer 1

This loop
while read line;
do md5sum $line | xargs >> md5.txt
done < list.txt
should probably be
while read line;
do md5sum "$line"
done < list.txt > md5.txt
Quote parameter expansions, and it's unclear why you needed.