Hey, thanks Rob and Daniel!
I did find a good source of terminal commands on the web and was
successful. Although SetFile is useful there is another command to do
the same which doesn't require Apple's Dev kit, its chflags . I
also found some hints on using find and sending filenames with
spaces to an application thats more 'portable', it uses {} but I don't
remember exactly now what it is, and I am at work not home.
thanks again.
On Jan 5, 9:39 am, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
> As far as Terminal goes—which is the way I would do it—the command is
> `SetFile -a v <files>`. However if any of the files have spaces in
> their names (which they might), it's not going to be safe to just do
> `SetFile -a v */*/*`. You'll probably need to use an old staple of the
> command line, find/xargs.
>
> find -X <folder> -depth 2 -print0 | xargs -0 SetFile -a v
>
> The "-depth 2" option says "only print files whose depth from <folder>
> is exactly 2 (i.e. <folder>/*/* but not <folder>/*, although SetFile
> is safe to use on files that are already visible)". Change that value
> as you wish (+n or -n for greater-than or less-than), or leave it out
> for infinite traversal. "-print0 | -0" is what makes it safe with
> spaces (-X is also there to work with xargs, to be extra safe).
>
> You could also save this code to an AppleScript file in ~/Library/
> Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions to be able to do this to any
> folder (to infinite depth, although you could put back the -depth
> parameter to set that—it just seems less useful in a generic action,
> rather than a one-time command):
>
> on open theFolder
> if folder of (info for theFolder) is true then
> do shell script "find -X " & (quoted form of POSIX path of
> theFolder) & " -print0 | xargs -0 SetFile -a v"
> else
> do shell script "SetFile -a v " & (quoted form of POSIX path
> of
> theFolder)
> end if
> return theFolder
> end open
>
> change -a v to -a V to make things _in_visible, or `man SetFile` for
> more attributes you can set.
>
> On Jan 3, 9:13 am, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Jan 3, 2012, at 2:39 AM, phillman5 wrote:
>
> > > Ok, what's the comma trick?
>
> > You can select multiple things (including files) in Quicksilver by getting
> > the first one, hitting comma, getting the next one, etc. until you’ve
> > selected the last one. You can also select everything on the results list
> > using ⌘A, which would be helpful if you want everything in the folder.
>
> > In theory, you could get everything in one folder, then go to another and
> > get all those files, etc. but one mistake and you’re starting over. This
> > would probably be easier in Terminal with something like `some_command
> > */*/*` (but I’m comfortable in the Terminal).
>
> > --
> > Rob McBroom
> > <http://www.skurfer.com/>
