Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:03:13 -0700
On 9/3/02 12:34 PM, "Roman Fischer" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I want to do a simple thing: copy a file into the same folder using an other
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name. In (good?) old MS-DOS days this was a simple thing:
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Copy c:\abc\def.txt c:\abc\ghi.txt
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Call me stupid but I did not find a solution to do this in Applescript
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(MacOS X 10.1.5). After spending a few evenings in searching for a solution
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I still did not find one.
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How can I do such a copy in Applescript (or is MS-DOS really better;-) ?
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1) Take a good look at the Finder dictionary, Standard Suite.
tell app "Finder"
set theFile to file "Mac Hard Disk:Folder 1:Folder 2:File Name"
set dupFile to duplicate theFile
set dupFile to dupFile as alias -- can still find it when name changes
set name of dupFile to "New Name"
update dupFile
end tell
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Paul Berkowitz
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