Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS better than Applescript??
- From: Pat Cannon <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:28:27 -0500
I want to do a simple thing: copy a file into the same folder using an other
name. In (good?) old MS-DOS days this was a simple thing:
Copy c:\abc\def.txt c:\abc\ghi.txt
Call me stupid but I did not find a solution to do this in Applescript
(MacOS X 10.1.5). After spending a few evenings in searching for a solution
I still did not find one.
How can I do such a copy in Applescript (or is MS-DOS really better;-) ?
Hi Roman,
I won't call you stupid. AppleScript isn't often less intuitive than
DOS, but this is one case where it is.
Anyway this works:
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tell application "Finder"
duplicate the selection
set name of the result to "ghi.txt"
end tell
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Or if don't want to manually select the item, or you just like to
type (and if your Mac hard drive is oddly enough named "c"):
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tell application "Finder"
duplicate file "c:abc:def.txt"
set name of the result to "ghi.txt"
end tell
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Pat
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