Hi Luther,
What I am looking for is speed. The image folder contains 25000 jpg files. And Mark's script returns a list of 25000 filenames in just a couple of seconds (even if the image folder is a network mount). Your Finder script is much too slow (and it returns the full paths instead of only the filenames). I need speed, that's why I need the shell script instead of a Finder script. Unfortunately I really wouldn't know how to edit Mark's script in a way that the list is sorted by modification date with the newest first (instead of alphabetically).
Anyway, thank you for your answer.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - On 12 mrt. 2014 (week 11), at 20:08, Luther Fuller < email@hidden> wrote:
This looked familiar, so I looked in an old script and found ...
set rawMsgList to (reverse of (sort {get items of sourceFolder} by modification date)) -- Leopard needs {}
So, I did some experimenting. Like this ...
property sourceFolder : alias "OS_X:Library:Application Support" on run tell application "Finder" -- set fileList to sort (get items of sourceFolder) by modification date set fileList to (reverse of (sort (get items of sourceFolder) by modification date)) end tell item 1 of fileList as text log the result end run
This seems to do what you need ... and does not need 'do shell script'. (But, perhaps you had something else in mind that I overlooked. ?)
On Mar 12, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Bert Groeneveld wrote:
Thanks to Mark J. Reed I have following very, very powerful piece of code:set all_the_Hires_Images to paragraphs of (do shell script "cd " & qp & "&& find . -type f -print | sed -e 's,.*/,,'")
I use it this way: set the_ImagePath_folder to choose folder with prompt "Choose Hires Folder" set qp to quoted form of POSIX path of the_ImagePath_folder set all_the_Hires_Images to paragraphs of (do shell script "cd " & qp & "&& find . -type f -print | sed -e 's,.*/,,'") (* Finder alternative (much slower) tell application "Finder" set all_the_Hires_Images to name of every file of entire contents of the_ImagePath_folder end tell *) This script returns a list (sorted alphabetically) of the NAMES of all files inside a certain highres folder. So far so good.
What I need now is the same list, but than sorted by modification date with the newest files first (instead of sorted alphabetically). Is someone able to help me and edit Mark's code? I am unable to figure this out myself.
Thank you for any help, Bert.
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