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Scripting a delete of a directory (5 posts)
- Started 19 years ago by tkale
- Latest reply 16 years ago from Scott McGuire
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tkale Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
Here's a script that should work (replace host, userid, password and path with the information for your situation):
tell application "Fetch 4.0.3"
open url "ftp://userid :password@host/path/"
set allnames to name of every remote file
repeat with aname in allnames
set aname to (aname as string)
delete remote file aname
end repeat
end tellThanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks[This message has been edited by JimMatthews (edited 12-26-2003).]
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tkale Member
Thanks Jim!
Happy Holidays!
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seg Member
This is great - I have been trying to figure out how to do this. I tried adding:
set allnames to name of every remote file whose name extension is "jpg"
So I can delete specific files, but it didn't work. Am I doing something wrong or is there another way to do this?
Originally posted by JimMatthews:
Here's a script that should work (replace host, userid, password and path with the information for your situation):
tell application "Fetch 4.0.3"
open url "ftp://userid :password@host/path/"
set allnames to name of every remote file
repeat with aname in allnames
set aname to (aname as string)
delete remote file aname
end repeat
end tellThanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks[This message has been edited by JimMatthews (edited 12-26-2003).]
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Scott McGuire Administrator
Hi seg,
Hi,
Unfortunately, the AppleScript clause "every remote file whose property is foo" doesn't work with Fetch.
Here is a script that will do what you want:
tell application "Fetch"
open url "ftp://fetchtst:@test.fetchsoftworks.com/sandbox/000newf2/test"
set allfiles to every remote file
set namelist to {}
repeat with afile in allfiles
if the (name extension of afile) is "jpg" then
set namelist to namelist & {((name of afile) as string)}
end if
end repeat
repeat with aname in namelist
delete remote file aname
end repeat
end tellThis builds a list of names and then deletes everything in that list; if you delete inside the first repeat loop you might mess up the indexing and skip some files and/or try to delete some non-existent files.
Another way to accomplish this, if you're using Fetch 5.1, is to use Fetch's Automator support to create an Automator workflow to do the same thing.
Fetch has Automator actions for selecting, filtering, and deleting files, among others. And unless you're an experienced AppleScript user, it's easier to use Automator to accomplish things like this than figuring out what the right AppleScript is.
For more information about Fetch's Automator support, see the Automator actions and Using Automator with Fetch topics in Fetch Help - the latter has an example of deleting files based on certain criteria. And if you run into problems or questions, you can ask here.
(Fetch 5.1 is a free upgrade for users of Fetch 5.0 and later, and requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.)
Thanks,
Scott McGuire
Fetch Softworks
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I am trying to create an applescript to delete the contents of a directory. I sure would appreciate someone helping me with the proper FTP and AppleScript commands? :confused:
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