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Re: Toggle invisible files


  • Subject: Re: Toggle invisible files
  • From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:53:25 +0000

2551phil wrote on Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:38:04 +0700:

>> 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
>
>As Shane’s already pointed out, that setting can also be ‘Yes’ or
‘True’,
>so just testing for ‘1’ won’t cut it.

Neither will only reading half my post.  ;)

NG


>>>> 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"

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