OK, I seem to have sorted out the filePath part, but apparently AppleScript
does not take many extensions with "or"? Or am I doing something wrong?
Script:
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*set* w *to* *text window* 1
*set* the_file *to* *file* *of* active document *of* w *as* *text*
-- set filePath to (do shell script "/usr/bin/find ~/Dropbox/adi_dropbox/
-name" & the_file)
*set* filePath *to* POSIX path *of* the_file
*end* *tell*
*set* parentDirectory *to* *POSIX file* (*do shell script* "dirname " & quoted
form *of* POSIX path *of* the_file) *as* *alias*
*tell* *application* "Finder"
*delete* (*every* *item* *of* *folder* parentDirectory *whose* name *does
not* *end* *with* (".tex" *or* ".pdf" *or* ".eps" *or* ".bbprojectd" *or*
"tags" *or* ".ist"))
*display dialog* "Folder cleaned." buttons {"OK"}
*beep*
*end* *tell*
On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 3:22:47 PM UTC+2, Adrian Manea wrote:
>
> OK, I'm pretty sure this is an easy one, but since I have close to zero
> experience with AppleScript, I have to ask:
>
> Could anyone please help me with a script that gets the path to the
> containing folder of the current (open, frontmost) text file of BBEdit?
>
> Concrete use: I would then add to the script the command to delete from
> that folder files by extension. When running pdflatex, I get lots of
> auxiliary files that are not needed, so I intend to use such a script for
> "cleaning up" the folder, to be left only with .tex and .pdf files in that
> folder.
>
> I would add to the script something like:
>
>
> *tell* *application* "Finder"
>
> *delete* (*every* *item* *of* *folder* (*path to* filePath) *whose* name
> *does
> not* *end* *with* ".tex" *or* ".pdf" *or* ".eps" *or* ".bbprojectd" *or*
> "tags" *or* ".ist")
>
> *end* *tell*
>
> But the hardest part is getting that filePath...
>
> Thank you!
>
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