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Hi All,
I previously have used a little script to create a series of folders with common names but a user entered prefix - after upgrading to Mojave this no longer works... I have been trying to re-create in Automator but cannot seem to get the script to include the user entered Job Number in the sub folder names - can anyone help?
Thanks.
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
mkdir -p "$1/$2/$2 Images"
mkdir -p "$1/$2/$2 References"
mkdir -p "$1/$2/$2 Copy"
Although if you are in a job folder, it seems redundant to name the folders with the jobname in them, but I believe the preceding will do what you want.
mkdir -p "$1/$2/$2 Images"
mkdir -p "$1/$2/$2 References"
mkdir -p "$1/$2/$2 Copy"
Although if you are in a job folder, it seems redundant to name the folders with the jobname in them, but I believe the preceding will do what you want.
All you need to do with that workflow is change the mkdir syntax to generate the subfolders. I tested your workflow and it works once this change is made.
mkdir -p "$1/$2/Images"
mkdir -p "$1/$2/References"
mkdir -p "$1/$2/Copy"
Something that I do before I write any functional code in the Run Shell Script action is to send the arguments to a Desktop text file to confirm that the arguments are in the right order.
echo $1 > ~/Desktop/audit.txt
echo $2 >> ~/Desktop/audit.txt
Now you can Quick Look the audit.txt file and adjust your workflow if necessary for the right argument order. It is purely optional to either comment, or remove these two lines from the beginning of the action.
Hi, Thanks for the quick reply!
That works in that it creates the folders, but ideally I want to add the job number top each folder name - sorry, probably me not being clear!
With job number FS001, at the moment it creates:
FS001>Artwork
FS001>Copy
FS001>Images
FS001>Reference
Ideally I'd like it to create:
FS001>FS001 Artwork
FS001>FS001 Copy
FS001>FS001 Images
FS001>FS001 Reference
So adding the user entered job number as a prefix to each sub-folder name. Is that possible?
Thanks again for your help!
Perfect - thank you so much for your help!
You are welcome.
Help with Automator and creating folder structure