[thechat] Fun little OS-X AppleScript
Bob Davis
bobdavis at mac.com
Tue Apr 9 14:00:00 CDT 2002
I was playing around with using AppleScript for scripting terminal commands
and came up with this one. It's not terribly useful, but It's fun!
set dir to "$HOME"
try
display dialog "What directory would you like a file count of?" & return
& return & ¬
"Please Enter Path:" default answer dir
set dir to the text returned of the result
if dir is not "" then
do shell script "cd " & dir & "; ls -l | wc -l"
display dialog "There are" & result & "files in" & dir
else
error
end if
end try
It just asks for a path to a directory, and counts the number of (non-dot)
files in it then throws up a dialog with the number of files.
It counts the files by issuing an ls -l command (no dot files shown) and
piping the output to wc (word count) with the -l flag (count lines).
Like I said, not too too useful, but kind of a hoot to play with.
What have you scripted on X?
Anything useful?
bob
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