Hi Jacque.
I wonder if the ls command lists folders with a trailing slash, while documents
and apps do not have a trailing slash?
Bob
On Jul 11, 2010, at 8:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Andre Garzia wrote:
>> Jacque,
>> For your mac os x programming pleasure:
>
> Thanks. After staring at the problem all afternoon, I think I garbled my
> request due to Fuzzy Brain Syndrome. What I need is a list of both regular
> files and files that happen to be bundles, but does not include apps, system
> things, or user folders. In other words, a list of any file the user can
> double-click that would launch an app.
>
> I can filter out apps by checking their extension. Now I need to figure out
> how to remove user folders without removing bundles that are actually user
> files, like the ones iApps make.
>
> I got this far:
>
> function getFiles -- assume directory is already set
> put shell("ls -AF") into tFiles -- the "A" skips dot files
> filter tFiles without ".*" -- but it doesn't strip .DS_Store :(
> filter tFiles without "*.app*" -- remove apps
> repeat for each line l in tFiles
> if last char of l <> slash then -- normal file
> put l & cr after tList
> else -- bundle or folder; remove user folders, keep files
> put l & "Contents/PkgInfo" into tTestFile
> if there is a file tTestFile then -- iApp file
> put char 1 to -2 of l & cr after tList
> else if VOODOO -- MAGIC FILE TEST
> -- MIRACULOUS IDENTIFICATION, ADD TO LIST
> end if
> end if
> end repeat
> return tList
> end getFiles
>
> Checking for the pkgInfo file also eliminates plugins and .bundle files, at
> least the ones I looked at. Not sure where to go from here, I need to catch
> .rtfd files and similar. The .rtfd folders just contain a bunch of regular
> files (and no Content folder,) which makes those bundles indistinguishable
> from a user folder if you're just looking at file paths.
>
> I just discovered the "ls -F" shell command, which is handy because it gives
> a list of everything, with folders marked by a trailing slash. That way you
> don't have to get the files and the folders separately and then combine them.
>
> I'll look at the link you and Mike Bonner mentioned, it does sound like I
> need to look at some file flags. But if anyone's done this already I'd love
> to freeload.
>
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