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Re: Making a List out of Terminal "ls" command
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Re: Making a List out of Terminal "ls" command


  • Subject: Re: Making a List out of Terminal "ls" command
  • From: John Stewart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:07:08 -0500

On 02/10/05 at -0500 Christopher MJ Tangora said this

>   I'm trying to make a piece to an applescript that will make a list of
>the contents of a folder using a shell, not the Finder.  I know you can
>do it with the finder, but when I try to do it with a shell script I
>get a string, not a list.  I can not get a text item delimiter to
>separate the info into a list either.
>
>I thought it would be as easy as this...
>
>set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ASCII character 13
>set List_Shell to do shell script "ls /Users/Me/Desktop/A"
>
>But it wasn't.  I tried a variety of different ASCII characters, but
>they none seemed to work.  Anybody know of a way to do this or should I
>just accept failure and use the Finder command.
>
>I also tried adding in ...
>
>set List_List to List_Shell as list
>
>but that didn't do anything either (hoping the Text Item Delimiter
>would come into effect when I tried making it a list, but no luck).


set List_Shell to every paragraph of (do shell script "ls /Users/me/Desktop/A")

There's no need to use text item delimiters.

JBS
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