Creating a script that can set its own modification date
Creating a script that can set its own modification date
- Subject: Creating a script that can set its own modification date
- From: "David A. Cox" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:50:00 -0800 (PST)
I am stumped, and I hope someone can point out an easy fix for me.
I am working on a script, and I would like to set its modificaiton date to
some date far in the future, so that it sorts at the top of finder list
which is sorted by modificaiton date. I was hoping to be able to add
something to the script so that every time it was run, it would make sure
its modificaiton date was nice and far into the future.
Creating a script with the contents:
tell application "Finder"
do shell script "touch -t 202102211322 " & quoted form of POSIX path of (path to me)
end tell
works fine when run from script editor (the file is updated with the
correct future date). But when the script is run from the finder itself,
the date changes for a moment, but then that future date is replaced with
the current date and time. I can see why it would be able to tell that it
is changing itself, and then reflect that info. But that is not what I
want :).
Anyone know of a way to make a script set a false modification date on
itself?
DAC
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