Hi Francis,
> Am 11.01.2016 um 12:51 schrieb Francis Nugent Dixon <effe...@wanadoo.fr>:
>
> Hi from Beautiful (but wet) Brittany,
>
> A tiny problem.
>
> I use “cmd F” to find documents on my computer
> (never got round to using Spotlight).
> Is there a way to get the results of such a “Find”
> inside a Rev stack ? Anybody done this ???
> I am a buggar for backups, and for one original, I
> have copies on several of my external disks.
> I want to update all the copies of a file that I just
> modified, and by hand, it’s a pain !
>
> And just in case I haven’t got enough, is there a way
> to display in a liveCode stack the results of a “Get Info”
> from the finder ?
>
> I seem to spend half my life in „housekeeping"
you could use SHELL with „mdfind“ like this:
…
put "your searchterm“ into tSearchTerm
put shell("mdfind“ && q(tSearchTerm)) into fld "found files“
…
function q tString
return QUOTE & tString & QUOTE
end q
SHELL is blocking, but works really fine ;-)
Check the MAN pages for mdfind in the terminal.
> -Francis
>
> “Nothing should ever be done for the first time !”
Best
Klaus
--
Klaus Major
http://www.major-k.de
kl...@major-k.de
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