I need to replace one document in an existing zipped file.
This are the steps I think they are necessary:
first search the zipped file in the (sub)folders
unzipped file
replace the document
zip the file (without .ds_store)
I already could made the script without unzipping/zipping the file.
Does anyone can help me to add this part to my script?
set main_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose the workfolder")
set main_file to (choose file with prompt "Choose the new file?")
set Zipped_file to display dialog "Name of zipfile" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
set text_user_entered to the text returned of Zipped_file
log text_user_entered
tell application "Finder"
set sub_folders to folders of main_folder
repeat with i from 1 to count sub_folders
set sub_sub_folders to every document file of item i of sub_folders
repeat with j from 1 to count sub_sub_folders
set subName to name of item j of sub_sub_folders
if subName is text_user_entered then
else
--unzip folder
--duplicate main_file to item j of sub_sub_folders with replacing
-- zip folder (without .DS_store)
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
Is there some logic behind choosing the parent folder and then searching for a subfolder name that a user types (lots of errors there) rather than just choose the folder you want to unzip in step 1?
We have one folder with 70 subfolders. In each subfolder exist several subfolder, one of them is Package.zip. Now we have to change one of files in Package.zip and this in all the subfolders. And yes each Package.zip is different.
If there is a better way to do replace this file in all of the package.zip, feel free (I am just a beginner in applescript)
I agree with adayzdone, assuming you have the file open in some app when you know you are done editing it:
Wouldn’t it then be better to reveal the file by the proxy icon, and then run the script by using the current selection in the front finder window?
from there you could use a do shell script that returns the first zipfile with the name of the current folder. (man find)
Then you could execute zip ”r ziparchieve filetoupdate. (man zip)
I am as interested as you to find a way to ignore the .DS_Store files when doing archievieving with zip as of today
I use something like this to strip the zip-files for Mac Os X specific contents:
Don’t shoot me, I am just the pianist. My colleagues made the structure and now they have this problem. I’ve tried to make some scripts, so they thought I could make one for them…
do shell script is a command in AppleScript Script additions.
if you stuff into it, zip -r, the correct quoted form of posix path of the archieve, and the filename, it is best to cd to the folder by which the file you want to replace resides in. Then it should work. Something like this.
set zip_arc to quoted form of POSIX path of (path to desktop folder as text) & "test.zip"
set ftorep to (path to desktop folder as text) & "test.txt"
tell application "System Events"
set theFol to POSIX path of (container of disk item ftorep)
end tell
set ftorep to quoted form of POSIX path of ftorep
do shell script "cd " & quoted form of theFol & " && zip -r " & zip_arc & " " & ftorep
The find command goes like this:
set arc2f to "test.zip"
set ftorep to (path to desktop folder as text) & "test.txt"
tell application "System Events"
set theFol to POSIX path of (container of disk item ftorep)
end tell
set ftorep to quoted form of POSIX path of ftorep
set theARc to (do shell script "find " & theFol & " -name " & arc2f & " 2>/dev/null")
set main_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose the workfolder")
set main_file to (choose file with prompt "Choose the new file?")
set main_file to quoted form of (POSIX path of main_file)
set text_user_entered to text returned of (display dialog "Name of zipfile" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK")
log text_user_entered
with timeout of 360 seconds
tell application "Finder" to set zipFiles to every item of entire contents of main_folder whose name is text_user_entered
end timeout
repeat with aFile in zipFiles
set aFile to quoted form of (POSIX path of (aFile as alias))
do shell script "zip -j " & aFile & space & main_file
end repeat
How can I delete the .DS_store in the do shell script?
set main_folder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose the workfolder")
set main_file to (choose file with prompt "Choose the new file?")
set Zipped_file to display dialog "Name of zipfile (without .zip)" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
set text_user_entered to the text returned of Zipped_file
log text_user_entered
tell application "Finder"
set sub_folders to folders of main_folder
repeat with i from 1 to count sub_folders
set sub_sub_folders to every document file of item i of sub_folders
repeat with j from 1 to count sub_sub_folders
set subName to name of item j of sub_sub_folders
if subName is (text_user_entered & ".zip") then
open item j of sub_sub_folders
delay 1
end if
set NewFolder to every folder of item i of sub_folders
repeat with k from 1 to count NewFolder
set NewName to name of item k of NewFolder
log NewName
if NewName is text_user_entered then
duplicate main_file to item k of NewFolder with replacing
end if
set theItem to (item k of NewFolder) as alias
set itemPath to quoted form of POSIX path of theItem
set fileName to name of theItem
set theFolder to POSIX path of (container of theItem as alias)
set zipFile to quoted form of (theFolder & fileName & ".zip")
do shell script "zip -r " & zipFile & " " & itemPath
delete theItem
end repeat
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
If I read well, zipFile is the path to the zipped item and itemPath is the path to the item to zip.
If I’m right, it would be more efficient to write :
Unless someone comes up with the right curse for writing a zip archieve without storing Mac Os X resource files stored, then I think the only option is to delete it afterwards.
You can use this as a starting point, and play with it in a terminal window. This line was made for archieves not using the -j option (junk paths) so it works when the path is stored within the zip file. pxFn is the quoted form of posix path to the archieve.
do shell script "unzip -l " & quoted form of pxFn & " |grep \".DS_Store\" | tr -s \" \" |cut -d \" \" -f 5-20 |zip -d " & quoted form of pxFn & " -@ >/dev/null ||echo >/dev/null"
There was a .DS_Store file in the source folder.
There is no such file in the folder beurk which I got after expanding the beurk.zip file.
My understanding is that removing the hidden file thru a shell script and packing it immediately doesn’t give the Finder the ability to recreate the infamous item.
In fact, I guess that using rm to delete the hidden item was unneeded.
Now, deleting .DS_Store -That was another approach! I like .DS_Store everywhere, except when I have to share files with people on other platforms.
By the way, and the sad excuse for posting this post: Here is a nice new monospaced free font from Adobe. The otf version should easily be imported into fontbook! I have replaced deja vu with it.
I know, I actually code my dialogs with a “giving up after”, and made it work by inserting a block around them with timeout. (When giving up later than 2 minutes.)
I actually prefer do shell script "find . " over Finder if I am to search a subtree for files. This timed out, and I have an SDD disk, what gives?
Edit
And just for the record.
The second the zip file is unextracted, a new .DS_Store file will be recreated. To see if the zipfile has a .DS_Store file in it you should do an unzip -l zipfile in a terminal window.
-That was another approach! I like