Finding files

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#1

(*on my HD I have the following files:
/Library/Documentation/Help/VoiceOver.help/Contents/Resources/Dutch.lproj/pgs/10052.html
/Library/Documentation/Help/VoiceOver.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/10052.html
/Library/Documentation/Help/VoiceOver.help/Contents/Resources/French.lproj/pgs/10052.html
Why does this not find them?
Thanks
PS My aim is to list all the files with that name in the chosen folder
*)

set theFolder to choose folder -- and I choose the Library folder
set usrChc to "10052.html"
set theFiles to paragraphs of (do shell script "mdfind -onlyin " & quoted form of (theFolder as text) & " \"kMDItemFSName == " & quoted form of (usrChc as text) & "\"")
#2

At the very least, you need POSIX path of theFolder instead of theFolder as text.

#3

Just as an FYI. kMDItemFSName is slower performing than kMDItemDisplayName.

Also, you should check out Leap from Ironic Software. Lots of Spotlight / metadata goodness! :smiley:

#4

Here’s another method if you can’t get mdfind to work.

set theFolder to choose folder -- and I choose the Library folder
set usrChc to "10052.html"

-- must remove trailing slash from the end of posix path of theFolder so that the result is proper
set posix_theFolder to POSIX path of theFolder
if last character of posix_theFolder is "/" then set posix_theFolder to text 1 thru -2 of posix_theFolder

set theFiles to paragraphs of (do shell script "find " & quoted form of posix_theFolder & " | grep " & quoted form of ("/" & usrChc))
#5

Thanks regulus6633, invaluable help!

#6

Hi BLUEFROG and all
This is what I tried with mdfind.
It returns {}
Any ideas how to make it work?
I’d like to see if it is faster than grep

set theFolder to choose folder -- and I choose the Library folder
-- must remove trailing slash from the end of posix path of theFolder so that the result is proper
set posix_theFolder to POSIX path of theFolder
if last character of posix_theFolder is "/" then set posix_theFolder to text 1 thru -2 of posix_theFolder
set usrChc to "10052.html"
set theFiles to paragraphs of (do shell script "mdfind -onlyin " & quoted form of posix_theFolder & " \"kMDItemDisplayName == " & usrChc & "\"")
#7

Hi regulus6633 and all

I modyfied this line so that it would not fail when Posix was the root of the HD and it returned “/” only

if posix_theFolder is not "/" and last character of posix_theFolder is "/" then set posix_theFolder to text 1 thru -2 of posix_theFolder

This works well but it brings up a lot of files inside all bundles, appls, themes etc.

set theseFiles to paragraphs of (do shell script "find " & quoted form of posix_theFolder & " | grep " & quoted form of ("/" & usrChc))

Is there a way to exclude them incorporating usrChch to something like:
The code below failed on the root level of my HD because of permission problem.

set theseFiles to paragraphs of (do shell script "find -x " & quoted form of POSIX path of theFolder & " -type d \\( -name '*.app' -o -name '*.pkg' -o -name '*.bundle' -o -name '*.help' -o -name '*.framework' -o -name '*.theme' -o -name '*.plugin' -o -name '*.wdgt' -o -name '*.abbu' \\) -prune -print0 -o -type f ! -name " & quoted form of (usrChc as text))
#8

This works for me just as it is. This doesn’t even need the “if last character…” line either.

#9

Thanks regulus6633

I made itwork.
However it finds files inside bundles etc.
I need to skip them.
I have been working, with the help of the MacScripter community, on this to prune them away from the search
This returns all uniq dups filenames.

set dups to paragraphs of (do shell script "find -x " & quoted form of POSIX path of theFolder & " -type d \\( -name '*.app' -o -name '*.pkg' -o -name '*.bundle' -o -name '*.help' -o -name '*.framework' -o -name '*.theme' -o -name '*.plugin' -o -name '*.wdgt' -o -name '*.abbu' \\) -prune -print0 -o -type f ! -name '.*' -print0 | xargs -0 basename -a | sort -d -f | uniq -d")

I would like to be able to eliminate the basename filter so that I would have the whole path of the files.
I also would like to change the uniq so that it lists only the duplicates but all of them.
Is this possible?