Re: finding newest file in a folder
Re: finding newest file in a folder
- Subject: Re: finding newest file in a folder
- From: John Cochrane <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:27:48 +1100
On 14/03/2004, at 17:06, I wrote:
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Hello scripters.
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I am trying to get a reference to a file that I have just scanned in
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to a folder. My scanning software won't get it for me so I thought I
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would try to identify it by finding the file of the 'scan_folder'
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whose creation date is latest.
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I think a repeat loop is needed but can't seem to get it right.
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I'd appreciate any pointers.
Thanks to all for the instructive answers.
Before all the solutions flowed in I came up with the clunky workaround
of comparing the list of folder contents before and after the scan
rather than finding the newest file in the folder. I have inserted it
below hoping to learn even more from any suggested improvements.
tell application "Finder" to set scan_folder_contents to (name of every
file of alias scan_folder whose file type is "tiff") as list
-- script to perform the scan goes here, then
tell application "Finder"
set new_contents to (name of every file of alias scan_folder whose
file type is "tiff") as list
end tell
repeat with each_file in new_contents
if each_file is not in scan_folder_contents then
set new_file_name to each_file
end if
end repeat
John Cochrane
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