Re: Neat strategies for sorting a list of files alphabetically by name
Re: Neat strategies for sorting a list of files alphabetically by name
- Subject: Re: Neat strategies for sorting a list of files alphabetically by name
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:02:19 +0100
On 11/3/05 at 15:07, Barry Wainwright <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/3/05 3:01 pm, "Brennan" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Given that these files sort perfectly in alphabetical order,
> > is there a good approach for sorting them without writing a
> > full blown sort routine? Is there perhaps a shell command I
> > can use?
>
>
> On open (theFiles)
> Tell app "finder" to Set nameList to name of theFiles
> Set applescript's text item delimiters to {ascii character 10}
> Set sortedNBameList to paragraphs of Do shell script "echo " & ¬
> quoted form of (namelist as text) & "|sort"
> End open
Looks good, but "Finder" wont give me 'name of theFiles' (it's just a list
of aliases that gets fed to 'open').
If I have to iterate through them to get their names, I might as well
perform my own sort. :(
Conceivably I could assume that 'selection of app "Finder"' will contain a
list of the same files as received by 'open', but I fear that this may not
always work. Can I rely on this?
(See my other post about the Finder selection).
Any other ideas?
Brennan
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