On 01/20/2019, at 15:34, Dante Majorana <the.d....@gmail.com
<mailto:the.d....@gmail.com>> wrote:
> With the standard "choose folder with prompt" as I might have folders in
> various disks and the main hard drive in documents, desktop ...
Hey Dante,
Well, the simplest method for non-shell-heads is probably:
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2019/01/20 23:32
# dMod: 2019/01/20 23:37
# Appl: BBEdit, Finder
# Task: Process Files in a User Chosen Folder.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEdit, @Finder, @Process, @Files, @Folder
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tell application (path to frontmost application as text)
set targetFolder to choose folder
end tell
tell application "Finder"
set fileList to files of targetFolder as alias list
end tell
tell application "BBEdit"
repeat with theFile in fileList
open theFile
tell front text window
delete line 3
delete line (7 - 1)
delete line (9 - 2)
save its document
close
end tell
end repeat
end tell
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You should be able to read the script and tell what it's doing, but let me know
if anything is opaque.
Now then – if you're brave and want a faster solution – you can quickly change
the files in-place with `sed` in a shell script.
HEED the WARNINGS! listed in the script header!
This shell script will be faster and more transparent than the AppleScript.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2019/01/21 00:16
# dMod: 2019/01/21 01:21
# Task: Delete Lines 3, 7, and 9 from files in the front Finder Window.
# Tags: @ccstone, @Shell, @Script, @Delete, @Lines, @Front, @Finder, @Window
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# WARNINGS!
# This script operates on the FRONTMOST Finder Window.
# Files are CHANGED in-place and are NOT backed up first.
# Test with TEST files – NOT production files!
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# set -x # Debugging on/off
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
read -r -d '' asCmdStr <<'EOF'
try
tell application "Finder"
return POSIX path of (target of front window as alias)
end tell
on error errMsg
return errMsg
end try
EOF
asResult=$(osascript -e "$asCmdStr");
if [[ "$asResult" == "Can’t "* ]]; then
echo "$asResult";
# Ideally throw an error message here...
else
targetDir="$asResult";
cd "$targetDir";
oldIFS=$IFS;
IFS=$'\n';
for filePath in $('ls' -1)
do
sed -i "" '
3d
7d
9d
' "$filePath"
done
IFS=$oldIFS;
fi
While this script can run from BBEdit (or another shell-script runner) just
fine, I personally would run it using a keyboard shortcut via FastScripts
<https://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/> in the Finder.
NOTE – At the moment there is NO “Are You Sure You Wan't to Do this?” dialog –
it's run and done.
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Best Regards,
Chris
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