Re: Change modification date of a file
Re: Change modification date of a file
- Subject: Re: Change modification date of a file
- From: Bert Groeneveld <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:08:46 +0100
| Hello Jan, thank you for your answer. I had some complications testing with the "touch" script. 1) It seems to work fine with files on my local harddisk. 2) I had one situation in which I (or better: the script) was able to change the modification date of a file on a server. The strange thing was when I moved the file to another folder (manually in the Finder) the old modification date was back. 3) The script doesn't seem to work if the path to a file contains folders with spaces in the name.
My main script contains HFS paths which I convert to POSIX paths. Maybe something goes wrong there?
Additional question: Is it also possible to DUPLICATE a file with a do shell script? From one folder to another folder I mean.
Bert.
hi bert
do shell script "touch /PATHTOFILE" do shell script "mv /PATHTOFILE /PATHTOFILE/NEWNAME"
best regards,jan
I am also interested in example code how to change the filename with do shell script . . .
Hello,
I have a simple Finder statement to change the modification date of a file. See below. Every now and then (can't tell why) the task errors.I was wondering: How can I perform same task without talking to the Finder (do shell script bla bla....)? Can anyone help?
set D to current date tell application "Finder" set modification date of alias "Macintosh HD:Users:bert:Desktop:Testfolder:week_47.txt" to Dend tell
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