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Hi,

I'm new to both Perl and the Mac. Is it possible to use Perl to
automate the task of adding spotlight comments to all my files?

What I'm aiming towards is a simple script that cycles through all the
directories and child directories of a folder of my choosing, appending
to the spotlight comments the name of all parent directories.

This would help make my searches more accurate, in as much as a
resident of the "Website" folder is most certainly website related.

Thanks in advance,

Joseph

Joseph Taylor <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to both Perl and the Mac. Is it possible to use Perl to
> automate the task of adding spotlight comments to all my files?
>
> What I'm aiming towards is a simple script that cycles through all the
> directories and child directories of a folder of my choosing, appending
> to the spotlight comments the name of all parent directories.
>
> This would help make my searches more accurate, in as much as a
> resident of the "Website" folder is most certainly website related.

AppleScript (much as I dislike that "language") is a more likely
candidate than Perl for that task. When it comes to interfacing with
OSX you'll have to go through a small AppleScript even from Perl,
so why not do it all in AppleScript?

Anno
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In article <dlcq9c$jk3$>, Anno Siegel
<> wrote:

> Joseph Taylor <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:

> > What I'm aiming towards is a simple script that cycles through all the
> > directories and child directories of a folder of my choosing, appending
> > to the spotlight comments the name of all parent directories.

> AppleScript (much as I dislike that "language") is a more likely
> candidate than Perl for that task. When it comes to interfacing with
> OSX you'll have to go through a small AppleScript even from Perl,

Well, you might have to go through OSA, but that doesn't mean
you have to go through AppleScript.

Check the Mac:: modules on CPAN to see which may apply

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