Re: Toggle invisible files
Re: Toggle invisible files
- Subject: Re: Toggle invisible files
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:07:10 +0000
2551phil wrote on Wed, 09 Nov 2016 23:46:28 +0700:
>
>> On 9 Nov 2016, at 14:17, DaveC <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> What exactly is changed in the dictionary for Mav that breaks this?
>
>Nothing.
>
>Your script is failing on the ‘read’ command because the defaults pair
>doesn’t exist on a new install until you write it.
>
>You can just rap a ‘try' around the ‘read’ command and change the ‘if’
>condition to “if dotVisible is not 1” and your script will work as
before.
Another approach would be to read the whole defaults text and see if it
contains "AppleShowAllFiles = 1;". If not, it either contains the 0
setting or neither; it doesn't matter which:
set FinderDefaults to (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder")
if (FinderDefaults contains "AppleShowAllFiles = 1;") then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0; killall Finder"
else
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1; killall Finder"
end if
>> On 10 Nov 2016, at 07:20, Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
wrote:
>>
>> there are several values other than "1"
>
>‘Yes’, ‘true’ and ‘1’ - you’re right I was a bit hasty there.
Here's a one-shell-script offering:
do shell script "newState=$(
defaults read com.apple.finder |
sed -En '/ *AppleShowAllFiles *= *(1|[Yy][Ee][Ss]|[Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee]).*/ {
# If the ‘on’ setting is found, store “0” in the hold space.
s//0/
h
}
$ {
# Output the hold space contents at the end, or “1” if none.
g
/^$/ s//1/
p
}'
) ;
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles $newState ;
killall Finder"
NG
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