find latest subfolder in folder , open finder with latest folder

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hello All,

(Im musicman a newbe :slight_smile: )

i want to create a applescript that open’s the latest subfolder from a folder.

info:

  1. Root folder /Users/mamekedi/MyMusic/

  2. Subfolders:

MP3-001
MP3-002
MP3-003
MP3-004
MP3-005

So i want the apple script to check what’s the last folder in folder /Users/mamekedi/MyMusic/ … (MP3-005)
and open it in finder.

So far i have a script that is telling me the folder-names in folder /Users/mamekedi/MyMusic/

Begin Script

tell application “Finder”

get name of folders of folder ("/Users/yucelcetin/marty/" as POSIX file)

end tell

End Script

Results:

{“MP3-001”, “MP3-002”, “MP3-003”, “fMP3-004”, “fMP3-005”}

After that i want to put the last folder in a variable, can you help me with this to

Best Regards
Musicman

#2

Hi,

try this


tell application "Finder" to open last folder of folder "MyMusic" of home
#3

Hello Stefan,

is it so simple … thank you very much it’s working

normally i’m working with linux (shell script) i would use something like:

ls -d */ | tail -1| awk ‘{print substr($0,0,7)}’

Thx Again