Re: Select Finder items by Regular Expression
Re: Select Finder items by Regular Expression
- Subject: Re: Select Finder items by Regular Expression
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:01:51 -0700
> On Aug 24, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>
>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Daniel Jalkut wrote:
>>
>>> Have you ever wished you could easily select a bunch of items in the Finder
>>> by regular expression? You're looking at a huge directory full of files and
>>> you want to select all the items whose name end in ".jpg" and contain "Fun"?
>>
>> This can be done with vanilla Applescript.
>>
>> tell application "Finder"
>> files of entire contents of startup disk whose name contains "Fun" and
>> name extension is "jpg"
>> end tell
>
> Hi Michelle - I didn't realize that the Finder's built-in matching was as
> quick and relatively useful as it is. Thanks for that!
FWIW not quick or useful for me. It locks up Finder and I have to force
quit. 2GHz Imac G5, 10.4.2
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