Re: Loop to erase the contents of my logs ...
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 16:03:26 -0700
Yeah, I spoke too soon. I'm so used to treating POSIX paths and the Finder
like oil and water - making sure they never mix, that I didn't read the
original code closely enough.
My bad.
Andrew
:)
On 6/10/03 3:48 PM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 11:05 AM, Andrew Oliver wrote:
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> The Finder doesn't follow the POSIX-based, /-delimited pathnames.
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> Instead is
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> uses the Mac OS-based :-delimited pathnames
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>
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> So:
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>
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> tell application "Finder"
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> set logFiles to name of every file of folder ":private:var:log3"
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> whose
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> name ends with ".log
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> delete logFiles
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> end tell
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Ah, no. There's a lot more to POSIX-to-HFS path translation than
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transliterating slashes to colons. Take a look a what 'POSIX file
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"/var/log"' returns. Besides, Charles was already doing the right
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thing by pumping the POSIX path through "POSIX file".
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>
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--Chris Nebel
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Apple Development Tools
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