Re: Little Help...
Re: Little Help...
- Subject: Re: Little Help...
- From: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:08:12 +0000
- Thread-topic: Little Help...
Title: Re: Little Help...
On 2/11/06 21:00, "Doug McNutt" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 12:42 -0800 11/2/06, Don Wieland wrote:
>> Create a new folder with a Date/Time Stamp (Ex.. BU_110206_1100) in a backup
>> folder with a path of /Users/DDD/Desktop/OE_BkUps/
>>
>> Then COPY all files from a folder " /Users/DDD/Desktop/TheFolder/"
>> into this new folder.
>
> That sounds like a four line shell script which is not appropriate here but. . > .
>
> I strongly recommend naming that folder "BU_061102_1100" so that it will sort
> properly by name after you have a bunch of them.
>
> Ask if you want more on a shell script after the AppleScripters have their
> say.
Sounds like a one line AppleScript to me ;-)
tell application "Finder" to duplicate files of (desktop's folder "theFolder") to (make new folder at (desktop's folder "OE_BkUps") with properties {name:"BU_" & (get (((current date) as «class isot») as string)'s (words of it) as text)})
--
Barry
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