Applescript to find dated file

In Automator, use the Action Find Finder Items:

In Search, select the Folder

What date do you need to search for?

That Action gives a choice of Date Created, Date Last Opened, or Date Last Modified.

(You can also use boolean logic: All, Any or None):

I see (sorry, I didn't see your dropbox link before)

As you list the date as, for example, February 8, that makes it a bit more difficult.

I'm unable to help with this, sorry.

ok, a bit easier than I first thought (just needed to build an array of the Months to match your format).

I used Automator, If you need to use this in Applescript, just use: do shell script (edit: or use Pierre's Applescript below)

This searches the Desktop, so change the directory to the one you want to search.

Not sure how you want to report what was found, this creates a file on the Desktop, but you can change the second action to anything you want

The Run Shell Script Action is:

MONTHS=(ZERO January February March April May June July August Septembet October November December)

ThisMonth=$(date "+%m")

ThisDay=$(date "+%d")

FileString="${MONTHS[$ThisMonth]} $ThisDay"

find $HOME/Desktop/ -iname *"$FileString"*

Try running the following script from the Script Editor window:

set theSourceFolder to choose folder

set theDate to {month, day} of (current date)

set TID to AppleScript'stext item delimiters

set AppleScript'stext item delimiters to {space}

set theFileName to (theDate as text) & ".docx"

set AppleScript'stext item delimiters to TID

tell application "Finder"

(files of the entire contents of theSourceFolder whose name is theFileName) as alias list

end tell

If you want to to open the file in Word (or whatever App created the file), then just need to add -exec to find:

change

find $HOME/Desktop/ -iname *"$FileString"*

to

find $HOME/Desktop/ -iname *"$FileString"* -exec open {} \;

Edit: I didn't account for the leading zero.

easy fix, just need to add: -

Change:

ThisMonth=$(date "+%m")

ThisDay=$(date "+%d")

to

ThisMonth=$(date "+%-m")

ThisDay=$(date "+%-d")

so:

MONTHS=(ZERO January February March April May June July August Septembet October November December)

ThisMonth=$(date "+%-m")

ThisDay=$(date "+%-d")

FileString="${MONTHS[$ThisMonth]} $ThisDay"

find $HOME/Desktop/ -iname *"$FileString"* -exec open {} \;

[Note: The file will be opened with -exec]

Hello

You might try something like the following.

Shell script e.g.:

#!/bin/bash # # for localised month name by %B # # export LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 # export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 # etc # DIR=~/Desktop find "$DIR" -type f -iname "$(date '+%B %d').*" -print

AppleScript e.g.:

set d to (choose folder)'s POSIX path do shell script "DIR=" & d's quoted form & "; find \"${DIR%/}\" -type f -iname \"$(date '+%B %d').*\" -print" set rr to result's paragraphs repeat with r in rr set r's contents to r as POSIX file as alias end repeat return rr

Regards,

H

I missed the %B, so no need for the array I added.

Also, OP does not use leading 0's, so use %-d

Try:

set theSourceFolder to "Macintosh HD:Users:TV_PROD_07:Dropbox:PRAYER_ANNOUNCEMENTS_1516"