Re: duplicate one file
Re: duplicate one file
- Subject: Re: duplicate one file
- From: Mirko <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 15:46:10 +0200
aie aie....so is not possible to simply duplicate a lot of same file with
applescript ??
in fact i run on OS.9.1...not with OS X...
the code John provide me is Perl language ?? and i can duplicate one file
inside a folder of my website ?? is this you mean..?? or is applescript code
??
thanks for some clarification....
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De : John Delacour <email@hidden>
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Date : Sat, 3 Aug 2002 14:15:49 +0100
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Objet : Re: duplicate one file
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At 11:18 am +0200 3/8/02, Emmanuel wrote:
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> duplicating files is the Finder's job. If you have not already, you should
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> have a look at the Finder's dictionary. Did you try simply:
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> set theFile to alias "Macintosh HD:myfile.htm"
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> repeat 1000 times
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> tell application "Finder" to duplicate theFile
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> end
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> A more sophisticated script would keep track in a list of the references of
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> the duplicated files, so that renaming them would be easier.
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Mmm. I despair of the Finder. It has always been buggy and terribly
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slow and it seems as bad as ever now.
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Mirko is using OS X and this allows a lot of things that formerly had
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to be done in the Finder or with the Read/Write osax (now in Standard
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Addns) to be done in the shell at breakneck speed. Even without
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this, it would certainly be quicker to use the read/write events to
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do this job rather than the Finder. I'm not doing the testing but
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I'll bet you.
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This script below is a plug-n-play demo of what I mean. I have used
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the read/write osax to create the file junk.html in my user
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directory, though this could be done in perl or the shell just as
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well, of course.
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One line of perl code then creates a list of filenames to be passed
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to the shell and a simple loop in the shell to duplicate the files
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and open the directory to reveal the mew files. The process in the
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terminal would go something like this -- which you will notice does
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not look much like Applecript...
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perl -e 'for(1..20) { printf q~junkd%s.html ~, $_ }'
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cd
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for newfile in junk0001.html junk0002.html
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do
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cp junk.html $newfile
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done
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open `PWD`
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(* AS SCRIPT TO MULTIPLICATE A FILE *)
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set varDirectory to the path to the current user folder
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set varPathname to "" & varDirectory & "junk.html"
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open for access file varPathname
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close access file varPathname
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(* you now have "junk.html" if you didn't before
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Now get perl to build a list of filenames*)
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--
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set pl to " 'for(1..20) {printf q~junkd%s.html ~, $_}' "
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set ls to do shell script "perl -e" & pl
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--> "junk0001.html junk0002.html junk0003.html etc
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set sh to " sh ; cd ; " -- use sh shell ; go to home directory
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set sh to sh & " for newfile in " & ls -- loop through ls
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set sh to sh & " ; do ;" -- start loop
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set sh to sh & " cp junk.html $newfile ;" -- create the dupl. files
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set sh to sh & " done ;" -- end loop
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set sh to sh & " open `PWD` ;" -- open the directory
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do shell script sh
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(* JD *)
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