Re: A simple deletion script
Re: A simple deletion script
- Subject: Re: A simple deletion script
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 21:00:40 +0100
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0b18
At 12:13 pm -0700 11/5/03, Christopher Nebel wrote:
Oh, just lovely. Here we have a complete newbie, and a language
that was designed to be comprehensible to non-programmers, and what
do you do? You send him straight to the shell, which is widely
known to be one of the *least* newbie-friendly systems in existence.
Go read the AppleScript Language Guide (just type that into Google
to find it), and try this (mostly) equivalent script:
tell application "Finder"
move every file of home whose name starts with "nam" to the trash
empty the trash
end
At 8:42 pm +0100 10/5/03, John Delacour wrote: [AS HIS FIRST ANSWER]
tell app "Finder" to move files in folder "d:f:" whose name
contains "xxx" to the trash.
Could the two possibly be related I wonder :-)
Somebody's not reading the threads again.
JD
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