Re: Applescript to search filenames
Re: Applescript to search filenames
- Subject: Re: Applescript to search filenames
- From: deivy petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 21:57:30 -0500
On Dec 1, 2006, at 17:33, David Green wrote:
I would like to create an Applescript application that will search a
specified directory for a string of text, or illegal characters.
The app
will create a file with the path to the found text, the owner of
the file,
and the creation date.
I would also like to see statistics on how many "bad" files have
been found,
and who the common offenders are.
The reason this is being considered is because we have several people
ignoring our naming conventions, and creating folders with a
'space' as the
first character. While this works fine on Apple OS's, it creates
problems
with archiving and maintaining the same conventions across several
facilities. I feel it has become necessary to document the
offenders and
inconsistencies in naming to solve our problem.
Do any applications like this exist already?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Best,
David
As suggested earlier by Mark, I'd go with a shell command.
But, Applescript can get everything in one fell swoop:
set j to alias "Folder_I_want_to_Search:"
tell application "Finder" to get (the properties of every file of
entire contents of j whose name contains " ")
Improve it to meet your needs.
By the way, I used here with a folder with many subfolders that had
many subfolders with subfolders and it was not that bad, about 3.5 s
(28 folders all together).
Deivy
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