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Re: Loop to erase the contents of my logs ...


  • Subject: Re: Loop to erase the contents of my logs ...
  • From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:05:53 -0700

The Finder doesn't follow the POSIX-based, /-delimited pathnames. Instead is
uses the Mac OS-based :-delimited pathnames

So:

tell application "Finder"
set logFiles to name of every file of folder ":private:var:log3" whose
name ends with ".log
delete logFiles
end tell

On 6/10/03 9:57 AM, "Charles Heizer" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm stuck. I'm trying to write a small apple script to clear the
> contents of all of my logs before I image my system, but I keep hitting
> a wall. I can do this with a foreach statement using a shell script but
> I wanted to find out how to do it with applescript.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Charles
>
>
> Here is my code --
>
> property attributes : {}
> property multiple : 1
>
> set logLoc to "/private/var/log3"
> set logLoc to (POSIX file logLoc) as Unicode text
> tell application "Finder"
> set logLoc to name of every file of folder logLoc whose name ends with
> ".log"
> end tell
>
> repeat multiple times
> repeat with c in logLoc
> set end of attributes to {c}
> end repeat
> end repeat
> activate
> repeat with i in attributes
> set theLog to item 1 of i
> set theLog to open for access theLog with write permission
> set eof theLog to 0
> close access theLog
> end repeat
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