Re: File age
Re: File age
- Subject: Re: File age
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:30:32 -0800
Calcualating a file age is simple to do with AppleScript:
set theFile to (choose file)
set mod_date to modification date of (info for theFile)
set file_age to ((current date) - mod_date) / days
display dialog "File is " & file_age & " days old"
On 1/11/04 12:16 AM, "Mark Moorcroft" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I am in the process of writing a software update management script kit.
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Part of this process requires me to calculate the age of a file. There
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are no tools in any of the shells I can find and the Perl modules to do
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this are also absent from OSX.2 and OSX.3 from what I can gather. I am
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open to suggestions on the best way to accomplish this. Obviously since
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I am posting to an Applescript list I expect suggestions for doing it
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with Applescript, but anything would be helpful. Date math seems to be
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a real pain in general. I hesitate to install the Perl modules because
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this script kit needs to function on a vanilla OSX install.
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Totally unrelated question...
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I got a message on this list today from email@hidden today. The
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mail header appears in Mail.app with an icon where you might expect to
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see his picture. I can find nothing in the raw message source to
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explain this, and he is not in my address book. I love a mystery ;-)
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From a despair.com calendar my good friend gives me every year...
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A few harmless flakes working together can
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unleash an avalanche of destruction.
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--MM
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[demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which
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had a name of smime.p7s]
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