Re: last modified file - how to catch?
Re: last modified file - how to catch?
- Subject: Re: last modified file - how to catch?
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:54:18 -0500
On Jul 7, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Omar K N wrote: But when applying to the path here, I cannot write the correct path in the 1st line:
set _path to POSIX path of (path to folder "_Output" of folder "Documents" of home as text) set lastModifiedFile to first paragraph of (do shell script "ls -Ft " & quoted form of _path & " | sed -E '/\\/$/d'")
I tried this, with modifications, and got these scripts that do work. First ...
property folderAlias : alias "Work_Files:Mail Archives:Mail-Safe Archive:2014:7:3" tell application "Finder" (sort files of folderAlias by modification date) end tell item 1 of the result as alias --> the alias to the most recent file in the folder folderAlias
Second ...
property folderAlias : alias "Work_Files:Mail Archives:Mail-Safe Archive:2014:7:3" set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return} quoted form of (POSIX path of folderAlias) do shell script "ls -Ft " & the result & " | sed -E '/\\/$/d'" text item 1 of the result --> name of the most recent file tell application "Finder" (item (the result) of folder folderAlias) as alias --> the alias to the most recent file in the folder folderAlias end tell
Starting and ending a script with aliases is safe and avoids problems. Hope this helps.
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