AppleScript Studio & File Paths
AppleScript Studio & File Paths
- Subject: AppleScript Studio & File Paths
- From: Connor DiPietro <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 22:11:46 -0400
Hi All,
Heres a tuffy.
I have made an applescript studio application, in which, the user
selects a file at launch. Okay, so i set the file path of the choice
to a variable, then converted it to a POSIX path, for use in shell
scripting. The shell script is
mv /the/file.txt /the/.file.txt (notice the . in the second one)
Essentially, this should hide the file from the average file browser.
I need to be able the have the file path assigned to a variable, the
file name with extension i.e. file.txt, and lastly the entire line of
the path up util the name and extension. So i would need a variable
for variable1= the/file.txt variable2=file.txt and
variable3=the/
I hope you understand what i am saying here. This would then translate
into the shell script as...
do shell script "mv " & variable1 & " " & variable3 & "." & variable2
I know nothing about 'delimiters' but would love to learn if this is
the right route. Thanks to all for any help!
Connor
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