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Applescript remote file search problem (3 posts)
- Started 22 years ago by gschoenthal
- Latest reply 22 years ago from gschoenthal
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gschoenthal Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
Unfortunately Fetch does not support the "whose" construct in AppleScript. You have to do something like:
set files_in_dir to every remote file of transfer window 1
repeat with afile in files_in_dir
if name of afile contains ".tif" then
download afile
end if
end repeatI'm not sure about the "contains" syntax, but the idea is that you do the test yourself.
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks -
gschoenthal Member
Jim,
Here is how I finally fixed ittell application "Finder"
set open_windows to every window
if open_windows is not equal to {} then
close open_windows
end if
end tell
tell application "Fetch 4.0b6"
activate
open remote directory "ftp://gss2r:..@blue.unix.virginia.edu/eehome"
set files_in_dir_eeultra to the name of every remote file of transfer window 1
repeat with afile_eeultra in files_in_dir_eeultra
if afile_eeultra contains ".jpg" then
download remote file named afile_eeultra
delete remote file named afile_eeultra
else
if afile_eeultra contains ".tif" then
download remote file named afile_eeultra
delete remote file named afile_eeultra
end if
end if
end repeat
close transfer window 1
open remote directory "ftp://gss2r:..@blue.unix.virginia.edu/"
set files_in_dir_blue to the name of every remote file of transfer window 1
repeat with afile_blue in files_in_dir_blue
if afile_blue contains ".jpg" then
download remote file named afile_blue
delete remote file named afile_blue
else
if afile_blue contains ".tif" then
download remote file named afile_blue
delete remote file named afile_blue
end if
end if
end repeat
close transfer window 1
quit
end tell
tell application "Finder"
if open_windows is not equal to {} then
open open_windows
end if
end tell
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When I try to execute the following script I get an error message in AppleScript that says "Fetch 4.0b6 got an error: Wrong keyword for a special function." It is giving this error because of my statement on the fourth line below, but I don't know what to change.
tell application "Fetch 4.0b6"
activate
open remote directory "ftp://gss2r:......@blue.unix.virginia.edu/"
set files_to_download to every remote file of the front window whose name contains ".tif"
download remote file files_to_download
end tell
Posted 22 years ago #