Re: Alias Files
Re: Alias Files
- Subject: Re: Alias Files
- From: "Jonathan Levi, M.D." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:16:02 -0400
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:21:50 -0500, Luther Fuller
<email@hidden> wrote:
I ran into a problem late yesterday. I'll spare you all the gory
details and offer this problem instead ...
A folder contains two files exactly, one of the files is an alias file
pointing to the other file. Write a script that will remove ONLY
the alias file from this folder.
If the alias file was created by Mac OS X, then the problem is easy
to solve. Ask the Finder for a list of the contents of the folder,
then find and delete the item whose 'class of item ...' is 'alias file'.
But, what if the alias file is a symlink? (The folders I'm actually
dealing with are from an ISO 9660 CD)
I'm thinking that it can't be done.
I think it could, with something like (not actually tried)
on isSymLink(aFinderItem)
tell application "Finder" to set itemPath to (aFinderItem as string)
set itemPathUQ to quoted form of Posix path of itemPath
set shellResult to do shell script ("ls -l " & itemPathUQ)
return (shellResult contains " -> ")
end isSymLink
Obviously this could be fooled, if you have a Finder item whose name
contains " -> " -- but I think you get my idea.
hth,
Jonathan
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