Hi & good day,
What I don’t understand is that when I use Chris’ shell script I can’t open the last file:--------------------------------..———————————————— trying to open file with TextEdit:
set _path to "/Users/okn/Documents/_Output" set lastModifiedFile to first paragraph of (do shell script "ls -Ft " & quoted form of _path & " | sed -E '/\\/$/d'") get lastModifiedFile tell application "TextEdit" open lastModifiedFile end tell —> file does not exist! --------------------------------..———————————————— trying to open file with Finder:
set _path to "/Users/okn/Documents/_Output" set lastModifiedFile to first paragraph of (do shell script "ls -Ft " & quoted form of _path & " | sed -E '/\\/$/d'") get lastModifiedFile tell application "Finder" open lastModifiedFile end tell --> Finder error: Handler can't handle objects of this class. --------------------------------..————————————————
but it works here:
tell application "Finder" set _fldr to folder "MacHD:Users:okn:Documents:_Output" set lastFile to (last item of (sort files of _fldr by modification date)) of alias end tell # Thomas Fischer, 07 Jul 2014 18:11, mE tell application "Finder" open lastFile end tell --> works fine, opens the lastFile
Why would AS treat the open cmd so different, ok it’s not a file, just a variable of a path?!
/ with best regards, Omar K N Stockholm, Sweden
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:11:39 +0200
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Subject: Re: last modified file - how to catch?
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Hello Omar,
the objects in AppleScript are unfriendly beasts that cannot easily be carried from one application (like the Finder) to another (like TextEdit).
I can't go deeply into this right now, but
path to folder "_Output" of folder "Documents" of home as text)
is formally a Finder path, but "home" is not defined (on my machine, OS X 10.6.8)
Better to start with
choose folder
to get an alias and feed that into the rest of the script.
Similarly with
set _fldr to folder "MacHD:Users:okn:Documents:_Output"
This won't give you a Finder folder, actually it is just a string, but some applications are willing to take it as a proxy for a folder. Finder won't.
But you can do this:
tell application "Finder"
set _fldr to folder "MacHD:Users:okn:Documents:_Output"
set lastFile to (last item of (sort files of _fldr by modification date)) of alias
# get lastFile # not necessary
end tell
You'll see Finder's version of a file if you omit the "of alias" above.
The alias is acceptable to other applications, the Finder version usually not. |