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Hey, i have used the xattr commnad in applescript to list the tag of the file example.rtf (as below)
xattr -px com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags "example.rtf" | xxd -r -p - - | plutil -convert json -o - - | sed 's/[][]//g' | tr ',' '\n'
and the result is
"Ricette\n5"
What i need now is to SET the TAG of another file (es. pink.rtf) like the previous result "Ricette".
Can someone help me?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), MBP,iMac,iphone,iBook G4
The link I gave you on your other post has additional answers which explain how to also set tags using xattr.
Also, that is not AppleScript. You're just using shell commands.
You are right. I found the solution there.
Now a have, hope,last question. The following script is correctly working using Terminal
xattr -wx com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags "$(xattr -px com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags aaa.rtf)" bbb.rtf;xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo "$(xattr -px com.apple.FinderInfo aaa.rtf)" bbb.rtf
but when i put it in the applescript
do shell script "xattr -wx com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags "$(xattr -px com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags aaa.rtf)" bbb.rtf;xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo "$(xattr -px com.apple.FinderInfo aaa.rtf)" bbb.rtf"
it returns me the error
Syntax Error
Expected end of line, etc. but found unknown token.
escape the quotes within the do shell script quotes
(i.e. \"$(xattr -px com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags aaa.rtf)\"
i tryed but it doesn't work. the same error
do shell script "xattr -wx com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags \"$(xattr -px com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags aaa.rtf)\" bbb.rtf;xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo \"$(xattr -px com.apple.FinderInfo aaa.rtf)\" bbb.rtf"
thank you!
Applescript-xattr
