mdls doesn't like spaces in the file path. What do I do to escape spaces here?
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jan 11, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > Any time I see "can you get this info on a Mac" I head for the shell. > > I found the following for a terminal command to get file info. > > http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/165095/is-there-a-similar-functionality-of-get-info-cmdi-from-the-mac-os-x-termina > > So it says use the mdls command > > So then I put it in a shell function in a LiveCode Script. > > http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/165095/is-there-a-similar-functionality-of-get-info-cmdi-from-the-mac-os-x-termina > > on mouseUp > answer File "Select file to get info on..." > put it into tFilePath > put shell( "mdls" && tFilepath) into tFileInfo > put tFileInfo into field 1 > end mouseUp > > Then you get the following data in tFileInfo that you would then parse for > the data you want. > > ------------------------------- > kMDItemAlternateNames = ( > "MyFile.rtf" > ) > kMDItemContentCreationDate = 2016-01-11 15:04:45 +0000 > kMDItemContentModificationDate = 2016-01-11 15:04:45 +0000 > kMDItemContentType = "public.rtf" > kMDItemContentTypeTree = ( > "public.rtf", > "public.text", > "public.data", > "public.item", > "public.content" > ) > kMDItemDateAdded = 2016-01-11 15:04:45 +0000 > kMDItemDisplayName = "MyFile" > kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2016-01-11 15:04:45 +0000 > kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2016-01-11 15:04:45 +0000 > kMDItemFSCreatorCode = "" > kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 16 > kMDItemFSHasCustomIcon = (null) > kMDItemFSInvisible = 0 > kMDItemFSIsExtensionHidden = 1 > kMDItemFSIsStationery = (null) > kMDItemFSLabel = 0 > kMDItemFSName = "MyFile.rtf" > kMDItemFSNodeCount = (null) > kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 20 > kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501 > kMDItemFSSize = 332 > kMDItemFSTypeCode = "" > kMDItemKind = "Rich Text Document" > kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2016-01-11 15:04:45 +0000 > kMDItemLogicalSize = 332 > kMDItemPhysicalSize = 4096 > kMDItemUseCount = 1 > kMDItemUsedDates = ( > "2016-01-11 05:00:00 +0000" > ) > ----------------------------- > > > Martin > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Getting-Finder-results-into-LiveCode-tp4700069p4700072.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
