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Re: wildcard for directory selection

Subject: Re: wildcard for directory selection
From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:26:57 +0100
Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a26

At 8:49 am -0700 8/7/03, Matthew Galaher wrote:

I wish to be able to type the first x number of characters in a file name in a dialog, and then have the finder select/open the first match. So if I have directories named:

Volumes/Production/client/content/0073_foobar
Volumes/Production/client/content/0074_barfoo
Volumes/Production/client/content/0075_foobar

the dilalog would only need '0075' to open directory 0075_foobar

Use the wildcard "*" as in the examples below

set _pattern to "Applic*"
set _dir to quoted form of "/Volumes/dx/"
do shell script "cd " & _dir & "; open " & _pattern

or

do shell script "open " & _dir & _pattern

JD

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