How to turn the list from do shell find into an AS list

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#1

Hi Guys,

I have searched the forums for an easy way to transform a list I get from the find command into an AppleScript list object. The lists from find are just single lines liek these:

/Applications/.localized
/Applications/3ivx
/Applications/3ivx/.DS_Store
/Applications/3ivx/forums.3ivx.com
/Applications/3ivx/How To Play AVI Files
/Applications/3ivx/ReadMe.pdf
/Applications/3ivx/Uninstall 3ivx.app
/Applications/3ivx/Uninstall 3ivx.app/Contents
/Applications/3ivx/Uninstall 3ivx.app/Contents/Info.plist
/Applications/3ivx/Uninstall 3ivx.app/Contents/MacOS
/Applications/3ivx/Uninstall 3ivx.app/Contents/MacOS/installer
/Applications/3ivx/Uninstall 3ivx.app/Contents/MacOS/installtoo

and so on. I am sure you get the idea. I am always running find against the full path so there will be a / at the beginning of each line. Now, I thought about delimiters, but on another thread, covering curl responses, it seemed to me that the linefeed ist not enough.

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
budy

#2

Ahh, never mind!

set theList to do shell script "find ~/Documents -name \"*.pl\" -print"

already returns a list. I was rather trying to figure out beforehand than simply doing trial and error, but a search on the forum has come up with this.

Thanks,
Stephan

#3

That doesn’t seem to return a list for me - at least an Appescript one. This does however.

set myFind to do shell script "find ~/Desktop -type f -maxdepth 1 \\! -name \".*\" "
set x to (paragraphs of myFind) as list
#4

Hi Chris,

yes, you’re right. I was a bit confident that it would work the way I saw on the other post. Anyway, your suggestion works perfectly.

Thanks a lot,
budy

#5

Chris, I don’t think you need as list on the end of that.