Most of the script hacking I've seen done on LR catalogs has been SQLlite, not Lua. The LR database is an SQLlite implementation.
Lua is the LR implementation language, not the database. Godfrey -- Godfrey DiGiorgi - godfreydigio...@me.com - 408.431.4601 cell > On Oct 12, 2015, at 9:42 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > >> On 2015-10-12 20:19 , John wrote: >>> On 10/11/2015 10:17 PM, steve harley wrote: >>> it occurs to me this would be an opportunity to learn Lua (Lightroom's >>> scripting language) >> >> I wonder if opening a terminal window and using the "ls -a -l [pathname]" >> command and pipe it to a textfile would do the trick? > > sort of … that would print lots of extra info, wouldn't put the path on each > line, and wouldn't recurse into the subdirectories; there are switches to > "ls" that would be more appropriate, but the "find" command in the string i > offered Larry is a natural choice, as it's designed for processing lists of > files; i set it up to return the path and filename only — i was assuming > Larry wanted the path as a hint to where the sequence was broken (if he > wanted only the sequence gaps, that could be done too) > > yes, you could send ls's or find's output to a text file instead of through > sort & awk — TextWrangler is a free editor on Mac that is very powerful for > that kind of thing; it will do diffs and regular expressions > > my mention of Lua was genuine curiosity, but also an attempt to bring it > somewhat back on topic — Lua is the scripting language built-into Lightroom; > Larry's original request was how to find gaps in the sequence within > Lightroom, and i'm sure it could be done > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
