Automator Quick Action Help

Here is a tested (Sonoma 14.6.1) Automator Quick Action where you right-click on your Test Requests folder and a prompt appears asking for the TR00nnnnn folder name to search. As written, the Run Shell Script then outputs the full path of that located (e.g. TR0011144) folder to a Desktop report.txt file.

Replacement Source for the default Run Shell Script:

: <<"COMMENT"
As a Quick Action, one right clicks on the Test Requests folder and is prompted to enter the TR00nnnnn subfolder to locate. The full path of the Test Results folder is passed into the Run Shell Script (e.g. $1) and then the aprompt shell function fires asking for the TR00nnnnn folder to search. These arguments are specified in the UNIX find command that returns the full path to the TR00nnnnn folder if found or zero if not found.
COMMENT

RequestFolder="${1}"

# roll own text prompt as Automator's opens in left lower screen
function aprompt () {
	/usr/bin/osascript <<AS
	use scripting additions

	set x to text returned of (display dialog "Enter TR00nnnnn subfolder to search:" default answer "") as text
	return x
AS
}
SearchFolder=$(aprompt)
mx="$(/usr/bin/find "${RequestFolder}" -type d -name "${SearchFolder}")"
[[ ! $mx = 0 ]] || exit 1
print -Dl $mx > ~/Desktop/report.txt

In all fairness, I was not successful in writing a Shortcuts Quick Action. I was passing the Test Requests folder and the TR00nnnn folder name into the Run Shell Script but it never saw both input variables while specifying as arguments.

I have just tested a short Zsh shell script that processes all subfolders in the Test Requests folder. It takes a folder such as TR0011000 - 0011499 and creates an array with 500 sequential entries 0011000 - 0011499, and then takes the input TR0011144 string, strips off the TR, and attempts to match 0011144 in the array created for each subfolder. This is far quicker than it sounds.

Upon a match, I construct the full path to the TR0011144 folder. Once that is done, what do you want the script to do with that folder's contents?

This was tested on Sonoma 14.6.1 and only a script run from the Terminal, not yet in Automator or a Shortcut solution.

One of the benefits of sleeping on a problem is that I now can find the example TR0011144 folder in your Test Requests folder hierarchy in one line of code without an explicit looping process.