source folder to script

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#1

Hi there I need an apple script that will allow me to select a source folder and then take selection and run a termianl command on it.

At the moment I have


set sourcefolder to (choose folder with prompt "Please choose a source folder" without multiple selections allowed and invisibles)

set command to "find sourcefolder"

now that is not right, but I can’t figure out what I need to put into the first bit of the script to allow me to use it in the second bit.

Any ideas?

#2 
set sourcefolder to (choose folder with prompt "Please choose a source folder" without multiple selections allowed and invisibles)
set qsourcefolder to quoted form of (POSIX path of sourcefolder)
set thecommand to "find " & qsourcefolder
do shell script thecommand
#3

Hi there. Thanks for the reply.

Maybe I should have put the other bit in as well.

The find comman needs to perform an action on the source folder.

so I would be doing

do shell script "find sourcefolder -iname specific filename"

I assume this should let me do it, but I can’t quite figure out how to get the sourcefolder selection to be inserted into the terminal command.

at sum point I may want to be able to edit what the specific file name is but for the moment just hard encoding it is fine.

I really wish I knew more about this stuff. It’s just so dam powerful and I always have to hack little bits together to get results.

#4

Hi,

something like this


set sourcefolder to (choose folder with prompt "Please choose a source folder")
set searchTerm to text returned of (display dialog "enter file name" default answer "")
set qsourcefolder to quoted form of (POSIX path of sourcefolder)
set thecommand to "find " & qsourcefolder & " -iname " & quoted form of searchTerm
do shell script thecommand

@chris: without multiple selections allowed and without invisibles is the default parameter of choose folder

#5

I thought so. But I did not bother to confirm it. I just copied the script above me and edited it.

#6

Thanks all

That helped a lot. my script now does what I want and I understand a bit more about manualy inputting data into a running apple script.