Count files that start with a certain letter

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Count files that start with a certain letter

I need a simple script to give me a count of the files in a certain folder that start with "A" or some other character that I might choose.

I tried this but got an error

count every file name starts with "A" of folder ProofsOutFolder

Thanks for the help.

Posted on Mar 22, 2010 11:30 AM

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Niel

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Mar 22, 2010 11:38 AM in response to BenChase

Here:

tell application "Finder"
count (every file of folder "archive" whose name starts with "A")
end tell

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Answer 2

Chachi

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Mar 22, 2010 12:17 PM in response to BenChase

You can also approach it this way...

<pre style="width:630px;height:auto;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden;"
title="Copy this code and paste it into your Script Editor application.">

set theFolder to choose folder
set theChar to text returned of ¬
 (display dialog "Enter Search Character:" default answer "A")
do shell script "find " & quoted form of POSIX path of theFolder & ¬
 " -type f -name '" & theChar & "*'|awk 'END{print NR}'"

</pre>

Just another option to try out.

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Answer 3

Apr 5, 2010 2:48 AM in response to Chachi

Chachi,
It works fine but character is case sensitive.

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Answer 4

Chachi

Level 4

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Apr 5, 2010 7:07 AM in response to mahender negi

If you don't care about case you can simply change it to this:

<pre style="width:630px;height:auto;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden;"
title="Copy this code and paste it into your Script Editor application.">

set theFolder to choose folder
set theChar to text returned of ¬
 (display dialog "Enter Search Character:" default answer "A")
do shell script "find " & quoted form of POSIX path of theFolder & ¬
 " -type f -iname '" & theChar & "*'|awk 'END{print NR}'"

</pre>

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