Terminal command to change files/folders creation/modification date

Jacques/All;

I am out trawling for code and happened upon this.

I can't seem to get this coded without a syntax error. I also substituted line 9 with your f = sys.argv[1].decode(\"utf8\".

I get:

File "<string>", line 1

import sys from Foundation import NSFileManager, NSDateFormatterdm = NSFileManager.defaultManager()

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any ideas?

Hi,

Jon P wrote:

Jacques/All;

I am out trawling for code and happened upon this.

I can't seem to get this coded without a syntax error. I also substituted line 9 with your f = sys.argv[1].decode(\"utf8\".

I get:

File "<string>", line 1

import sys from Foundation import NSFileManager, NSDateFormatterdm = NSFileManager.defaultManager()

^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any ideas?

According to the error, the end of lines (linefeed) in the python script are missing.

Use another browser to copy the script.

Or use this handler (I replace the end of line by \n, the AppleScipt editor will replace them automatically when compile) :

on setCreationDate(f, d)
    do shell script "/usr/bin/env python -c 'import sys\nfrom Foundation import NSFileManager, NSDateFormatter\ndm=NSFileManager.defaultManager()\nf=sys.argv[1].decode(\"utf8\")\ndf=NSDateFormatter.new()\ndf.setDateFormat_(\"yyyyMMddHHmmss\")\ncdate=df.dateFromString_(sys.argv[2])\ncDateDict={\"NSFileCreationDate\": cdate}\nb, error=dm.setAttributes_ofItemAtPath_error_(cDateDict , f, None)\nif not b: print f' " & f & " " & quoted form of d
end setCreationDate

Thanks Jacques.
That's got it. I figured it had to be something like that. I think the way you formatted it the second time helped as well.
Elegant and tight.