Re: Complex Find Finder Items
Re: Complex Find Finder Items
- Subject: Re: Complex Find Finder Items
- From: James C <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:12:24 +1300
Hi Paul,
I'm guessing that you'd have to find them separately, into variables,
and then combine them.
I have no idea how to do the combining, but I suspect that it will end
up requiring applescript (which I don't know), because I haven't found
out a way of the shell reading or writing automator variables.
Regards,
James.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:00 AM,
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> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:17:34 -0500
> From: Paul Waldo <email@hidden>
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> Subject: Complex Find Finder Items
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> Hi all,
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> I'm trying to create a workflow where I look for Finder Items in a complex way. I routinely create files named xyz-<date>, abc-<date>, and def-<date> where <date> is something like 2012-01. These all reside in different folders. I want to be able to collect the latest version of each of these files, combine them into a ZIP file and email them.
>
> I'm using Find Finder Items and want an expression something like this:
> (Name begins with xyz and is the latest) or (Name begins with abc and is the latest) or (Name begins with def and is the latest)
>
> Can this be done in Automator? I suppose I could write a hairy "find" CLI command and use that, but that defeats the purpose of Automator. Any tips on how I might do this? Thanks in advance!
>
> Paul
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