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Level 1

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Applescript to find dated file

I would like to have some sort of applescript or automator action to find finder items that have todays date in them (ideally only one file). The folder I would like to pull from is shown below. Any help would be appreciated.

OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Feb 10, 2016 8:29 AM

18 replies

Tony T1

Level 6

10,232 points

Feb 11, 2016 8:58 AM in response to techteej

Forgot as alias , sorry

Try:

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

Pierre L.

Level 5

4,635 points

Feb 11, 2016 6:59 AM in response to techteej

The fastest way is to write

set theSourceFolder to POSIX file "" as alias

then drag and drop the folder between the quotes.

Hiroto

Level 5

7,461 points

Feb 12, 2016 2:01 AM in response to Tony T1

Hello Tony T1,

Thanks for reminding me of leading zero in day number although the %-d does not work with strftime(3) under OS X 10.6.8.

Instead I have to use something like this:

printf '%s %-d\n' $(date -jf'%F' +'%B %d' '2016-02-01')

printf '%s %d\n' $(date -jf'%F' +'%B %e' '2016-02-01')

Thus my scripts are revised as follows.

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 "$DIR" -type f -iname "$(printf '%s %d' $(date +'%B %e')).*" -print

AppleScript e.g.

set d to (choose folder)'s POSIX path do shell script "DIR=" & d's quoted form & "; find \"${DIR%/}\" -type f -iname \"$(printf '%s %d' $(date +'%B %e')).*\" -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

All the best,

Applescript to find dated file