Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
- Subject: Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:13:07 -0400
The & runs the two commands in parallel. To run them one at a time,
use a semicolon instead (without the backslash; \; is part of the
syntax of find -exec).
On Thursday, October 29, 2009, Cerciello <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yes Steve suggestion is working a part for the last line " & rm -rf __MACOSX; " which basically supposed to delete the __MACOSX folder created . . . I don't know why! and Axel is right with the "&" that precedes the "rm -rf __MACOSX" part; been wrong. So if I split the to line like this all work as expected:
>
> on run {input, parameters}
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set this_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of (insertion location as alias)
> end tell
>
> tell application "Terminal"
> do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; find . -exec unzip -o {} \\;")
> end tell
>
> tell application "Terminal"
> do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; rm -rf __MACOSX;")
> end tell
>
> return input
> end run
>
> Any suggestion on how to combine this 2 lines in one "do shell scrip" command?
>
> The idea to create this service is for unzipping large files downloaded from the net which often are splitted in hundreds of small zip files. Usually I will run the service on a folder on my desktop.
>
> Thanks allot to all for you help.
>
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
>
>
> Le 28 oct. 2009 à 22:47, Cerciello a écrit :
>
>
> [...]
> do script "cd " & this_path & find . -exec unzip -o {} \; & rm -rf __MACOSX;
> [...]
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Emmanuel and Steve already provided you with useful suggestions.
> I still feel uncomfortable with the "&" that precedes the "rm -rf __MACOSX" part; what is it supposed to do here?
> On the other hand, are you unzipping on a FAT volume? what's the provenance of the zipped files?
> More generally, which command(s) exactly do you type in Terminal.app when unzipping by hand the files contained in a folder?
>
> Axel
>
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