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Re: File size problem

Subject: Re: File size problem
From: Steve Thompson <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:03:49 +0100

On 21 Jul 2010, at 17:02, Brian Christmas wrote:

problem with getting file sizes in Applescript,

set theFile to "/Users/steve/testfile.csv"

set theSize to last word of (do shell script ("mdls -name kMDItemFSSize " & theFile)) as number

Returns:

tell current application
do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemFSSize /Users/steve/testfile.csv"
--> "kMDItemFSSize = 143"
end tell
Result:
143

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