On Oct 23, 2014, at 14:25, [email protected] wrote:
> 1. Run multi finds using a series of grep searches (not replaces). There
> might be up to 10 or more searches.
> 2. Put the output found (results) into one document so they are all together
> (prefixed by document path where they were found)
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Hey Mark,
I believe you initially said you wanted to delete or move the matched files, so
I'm going to start with that.
I have commented-out delete in the script below, so you can see how it works
without sending anything to the trash. Uncomment # delete foundFiles and
remove foundFiles to send the found files to the trash.
I've employed the long form of command-line switches for clarity.
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set targetFolder to quoted form of "/Users/chris/test_directory/folders_nested/"
set _patterns to quoted form of "
one.*four
three.*nine
ten.*twenty
"
set shCMD to "grep --extended-regexp --ignore-case --recursive" & " \"" &
_patterns & "\" " & targetFolder & " \\
| sed -En '/:/{
s!:[^:]+$!!
p
}
' \\
| sort -u"
set foundFiles to do shell script shCMD
if foundFiles ≠ "" then
set foundFiles to paragraphs of foundFiles
repeat with i in foundFiles
set contents of i to alias POSIX file i
end repeat
tell application "Finder"
# delete foundFiles
end tell
foundFiles
end if
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Move the found files instead of deleting them.
The destination folder must already exist, although it wouldn't be difficult to
make one on-the-fly.
The Finder's move command has a replacing option that will replace any
collisions. I have NOT used that in the script.
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set targetFolder to quoted form of "/Users/chris/test_directory/folders_nested/"
set destFolder to alias "Ryoko:Users:chris:Downloads:dest:"
set _patterns to quoted form of "
one.*four
three.*nine
ten.*twenty
"
set shCMD to "grep --extended-regexp --ignore-case --recursive" & " \"" &
_patterns & "\" " & targetFolder & " \\
| sed -En '/:/{
s!:[^:]+$!!
p
}
' \\
| sort -u"
set foundFiles to do shell script shCMD
if foundFiles ≠ "" then
set foundFiles to paragraphs of foundFiles
repeat with i in foundFiles
set contents of i to alias POSIX file i
end repeat
tell application "Finder"
move foundFiles to destFolder
end tell
end if
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Now let's use `bbfind` instead of `grep` to send the file-path plus found text
to a new document in BBEdit:
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set targetFolder to quoted form of "/Users/chris/test_directory/folders_nested/"
set _patterns to "one.*four|three.*nine|ten.*twenty"
set shCMD to "PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH;
bbfind \"" & _patterns & "\" --grep " & targetFolder & " \\
| bbedit"
do shell script shCMD
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Now let's rewrite that as a pure shell script.
It could be written as a one-liner, but I've broken it up to be easier to read
(hopefully).
#! /usr/bin/env bash
grepPatterns="one.*four|three.*nine|ten.*twenty";
targetFolder="/Users/chris/test_directory/folders_nested/";
bbfind "$grepPatterns" --grep "$targetFolder" | bbedit
As you can see your task isn't overly difficult.
--
Best Regards,
Chris
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