Fetch Softworks

Applescript II (5 posts)

• Started 20 years ago by rosmifetch
• Latest reply 20 years ago from Jim Matthews

• rosmifetch Member

  Hi Jim-
  I need to make changes to the following applescript handler (i've removed some non essential stuff for this post)

  on fetchcopy(filestoprocess)
  set curdfurl to item 2 of filestoprocess
  set myfile to item 1 of filestoprocess
  tell application "Fetch 4.0.2"
  activate
  put into url curdfurl item myfile binary format Raw Data text format Raw Data
  close transfer window 1
  end fetchcopy

  I'm having problems overwriting existing files before I upload a replacement file to an aix4.3 server.
  As a fix, I need to to try and delete the file at the url before I copy up it's replacement.
  I know I can do a delete with "delete remote file 'filename'" but is there a way to delete given an url and filename?

  Posted 20 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  You could do something like:

  set fullurl to curdfurl & (name of myfile)
  delete url fullurl

  If curdfurl does not end in a slash you might need to say this instead:

  set fullurl to curdfurl & "/" & (name of myfile)
  delete url fullurl

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 20 years ago #

• rosmifetch Member

  I had change
  "set fullurl to curdfurl & "/" & (name of myfile)"

  to

  Tell Application "Finder" to set fullurl to curdfurl & "/" & (name of myfile)

  ... but it worked!
  Thanks!

  Posted 20 years ago #

• rosmifetch Member

  How do I get Fetch 4.x to return a list of files from a remote server into a variable that's a list

  something like

  Tell Application "Fetch 4.0.2"
  set myfilelist to (results of "ls -al") as list
  end tell

  I did it in fetch 3.x but now it doesn't work :BR>here's what I used to use with fetch 3.x
  --------------------
  set dirignore to {".", "..", ".rsrc"}
  tell application "Fetch 4.0.2"
  activate
  open url myurl
  set mywind to a reference to transfer window 1
  set fetchcount to count mywind each remote item
  end tell
  if fetchcount > 2 then
  -- at the time I didn't know how to ignore the dotted files repeat with itemcounter from 2 to fetchcount
  tell application "Fetch 4.0.2" to set myname to (name of (a reference to remote item itemcounter of mywind))
  if not (myname is in dirignore) then
  if myname = {} then
  set mydir to {myname}
  else
  set end of mydir to myname as list
  end if
  end if
  end repeat
  tell application "Fetch 4.0.2" to close mywind
  end if

  Posted 20 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  To get the names of the items in the Fetch file list into an AppleScript list you'd say:

  set itemlist to name of every remote item

  If you wanted only file names you'd say "every remote file", for directory names you'd say "every remote directory".

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 20 years ago #