On Oct 27, 2014, at 03:53, [email protected] wrote:
> Cant understand why a multi file search using text factory in BBE won't allow
> the results to go into a new window.
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Hey Mark,
At the risk of being pedantic. :)
If I read the manual correctly it's because they're specifically designed to
process the selected text OR the full text of the front BBEdit text document OR
the contents of files on-disk. Essentially a Text-Factory is a Text-Filter
with a limited scope of operations.
I looked to see what might be done with an AppleScript within a Text Factory,
but it seems only the text gets passed. So with AppleScript you could produce
some output based on the file content, but you could not produce the file-path.
I believe the same will be true of shell scripts within a Text Factory.
BBEdit has other tools for producing a list of files containing literal text or
a regular expression.
`bbfind`, Multi-File Search, and AppleScripted Multi-File Search (aside from
shell access and the plethora of tools that makes available).
Attached is an AppleScripted Multi-File Search with some extras.
If you look in the variable findReco you can see there's quite a lot of info
available on matched items.
So. With all the available tools you can really go to town once you learn the
way.
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Best Regards,
Chris
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set targetFolder to alias
"Ryoko:Users:chris:test_directory:folders_nested_replace:"
set searchStr to "I want my MTV!"
tell application "BBEdit"
set findReco to find searchStr searching in targetFolder ¬
options {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, returning results:true} ¬
recursion true ¬
with text files only
if found of findReco = true then
set fileList to {}
repeat with i in found matches of findReco
set _file to result_file of i
if _file is not in fileList then # Filters out duplicates
set end of fileList to _file
end if
end repeat
else
error "No files with found containing the given regular expression!"
end if
# These methods of removing duplicates are unnecessary, because I've filtered
out dupes
# as they're added to 'fileList'.
# I leave them to demonstrate various other techniques.
# Vanilla AppleScript to remove duplicate file paths.
# set AppleScript's text item delimiters to linefeed
# set fileList2 to (do shell script "sort -u <<< " & quoted form of (fileList
as text))
# Using the Satimage.osax { http://tinyurl.com/dc3soh } to remove duplicate
file paths.
# set fileList3 to join (sortlist fileList with remove duplicates) using
return
# Using BBEdit itself to remove duplicate file paths.
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set filePaths to fileList as text
set filePaths to unique lines of (process duplicate lines filePaths output
options {deleting duplicates:true})
make new document with properties {text:filePaths, bounds:{0, 44, 1314, 1196}}
end tell
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tell application "Finder"
# delete in this context sends files to the Trash rather than destroying them
as `rm` does.
# Commented out to prevent accidents.
# delete fileList
end tell
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Tags: @BBEdit, @AppleScript, @Shell, @Script, @Multi-File-Search, @Search,
@Text_Factory, @Factory
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