Re: last modified file - how to catch?
Re: last modified file - how to catch?
- Subject: Re: last modified file - how to catch?
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 15:11:29 +0200
You already got several useful replies, you may also want to know that the shell command "ls" accepts a "-t" option to sort files by modification date, so that you would get the last modified file with:
first paragraph of (do shell script "ls -t " & (quoted form of (posix path of (alias "MacHD:Users:okn:Documents:_Output:"))))
All the best!
Emmanuel
On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:07 PM, okn wrote:
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> Hi & good day,
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> With AppleScript I know how to get the first or last file in a folder, f ex:
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> get first file of folder alias "MacHD:Users:okn:Documents:_Output:”
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> But I need the last file (by property?!) Modification date.
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> Also maybe one should first set the folder window to sort by Modification date, so that the latest file to have been added to the folder _Output would be uppermost?!
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> Right now unclear how to proceed…
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> with best regards,
> Omar K N
> Stockholm, Sweden
>
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