Re: Rewrite simple Finder tell statement to "do shell script"

Subject: Re: Rewrite simple Finder tell statement to "do shell script"
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:39:06 -0500

On Sep 11, 2012, at 4:43 AM, Bert Groeneveld wrote:

tell application "Finder"
move all_foundImageNames to the_CLEANSTART_folder
end tell

Hi, can someone help to rewrite above simple Finder tell statement with "do shell script"?

I don't know if this will help or not. You will have to experiment with it.

I use this code to get an alias to a file I want to copy ...

try

mboxPath as alias

tell application "Finder" to (some folder of the result whose name extension is not "mbox") as alias

quoted form of (POSIX path of the result)

do shell script "find " & the result & " -name " & msgFileName

(POSIX file (item 1 of (text items of the result))) as alias

return the result

end try

I's been a couple of years since I wrote this, so I'm not totally familiar with the man page, but it "finds" the file named msgFileName within the folder the result . The file does not have to be located at the top level of that folder. It seems to be blindingly fast in Lion.

(I only use this code in Lion. In (Snow) Leopard I use a Finder script. It may work in (Snow) Leopard and perhaps I should rewrite my script ... some day.)

Each of the found files is copied using this handler ...

on copyFile(fileAlias, targetAlias, newFileName)

-- fileAlias is an alias to the source file, targetAlias is an alias to the destination folder and newFileName is a string

set sourcePath to (quoted form of POSIX path of (fileAlias as text))

set targetPath to (quoted form of (POSIX path of ((targetAlias as text) & newFileName)))

try

do shell script "cp -np " & sourcePath & space & targetPath

on error errText number errNr

display dialog "Error cp -np = " & errNr & return & errText

error number -128 --***********************

end try

try

return ((targetAlias as text) & newFileName) as alias

on error errText number errNr

display dialog "Error targetAlias = " & errNr & return & errText

error number -128 --***********************

end try

return {}

end copyFile --------------------------------------------------------------------

I forgot to remove the 'on error' code because I never got an error to remind me that it was there.

I've been using this without error for years.

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