Help with File Attributes & Shell Script
Posted:
Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:54 pmby a_freyer
I would like to extract some data from a string stored in file attributes. Specifically there "wherefrom" attribute. I want to use the extracted string for renaming a file.
So far, shell scripts have come up bust for me as I'm not skilled at all.
So far, automator scripts don't seem to be able to retrieve attributes.
Hazel can't do this by default.
Any thoughts?
Re: Help with File Attributes & Shell Script
Posted:
Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:20 pmby Mr_Noodle
You can try the 'mdls' command and scrape out the where froms from that using some combination of 'grep', 'cut' or 'sed'. It can get a bit involved though but I'd start there.
Re: Help with File Attributes & Shell Script
Posted:
Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:21 pmby a_freyer
I'll see where that goes. Thanks.
Re: Help with File Attributes & Shell Script
Posted:
Thu Oct 02, 2008 3:16 amby alastor933
This
automator action will list all metadata for selected files in a terminal window.
Look at the script inside to figure out how it's done.
Re: Help with File Attributes & Shell Script
Posted:
Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:23 pmby sjk
alastor933 wrote:Look at the script inside to figure out how it's done.
That 7-line script is also shown on the
developer's site.