A different take on directorywalking

Mike Doub mikedoub at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 08:18:51 EST 2015


I think the issue you are going to run into is going to be the output format.  On both Mac and Linux you are going to be using the "ls -R" command. 

Do a search on unix ls command and you can see some example outputs in some of the articles. 

-= Mike 



On Nov 11, 2015, 7:54 AM, at 7:54 AM, Malte Brill <revolution at derbrill.de> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>as the livecode solutions tend to become rather slow if there is a
>certain amount of nesting involved, I want to come up with a shell
>alternative to directorywalking. something like
>
>— [snip]
>set the hideconsoleWindows to true
>switch
>  case „win“ is in the platform
>    put "dir " & tPath && "/b /s /A-D" into tShellCommand
>— tPath needs to be a Windows path using backslashes and needs to be
>quoted
>  break
>  case „linux“ is in the platform
>    — todo
>  break
>  case „mac“ is in the platform
>  — todo
>  break
>end switch
>return shell(tShellCommand
>—[snap]
>
>This returns for example:
>C:\Users\Malte
>Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte\10\2013-480_ds_10_1.JPG
>C:\Users\Malte
>Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte\10\2013-480_ds_10_2.JPG
>C:\Users\Malte
>Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte\11\2013-480_ds_11_1.JPG
>C:\Users\Malte
>Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte\11\2013-480_ds_11_2.JPG
>C:\Users\Malte
>Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte\11\2013-480_ds_11_3.JPG
>>
>where tpath was:
>"C:\Users\Malte
>Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte“
>
>Can anyone help me with the Linux and Mac counterparts. Ideally with
>the same output?
>
>Best,
>
>Malte
>
>
>
>
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