Re: [Bibdesk-users] Detect orphaned files?

[Christiaan H. <chr...@we...>]

On 11 Aug 2006, at 6:36 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:

> Here's a very quick and extremely dirty AS if you happen to be  
> using relative paths. I recommend only using this as inspiration:
>
> tell application "BibDesk"
> 	--get the papers path
> 	set theDocPath to the path of document 1 as string
> 	set theDocName to the name of document 1 as string
> 	set thePapersPath to my replaceChars(theDocPath, theDocName, "")
> 	--loop through all selected publications
> 	set thePubs to selection of document 1
> 	try
> 		do shell script "rm /tmp/bibfiles"
> 	end try
> 	repeat with thePub in thePubs
> 		set theLocalURL to the value of field "Local-URL" of thePub

It's probably better to use

set theLocalURL to the local file of thePub

because that is guaranteed to give the valid POSIX path, while the  
field can be a URL, a full path or a relative path. And no need for  
adding thePapersPath below.

Christiaan

> 		if theLocalURL is not "" then
> 			do shell script "echo '" & thePapersPath & "/" & theLocalURL &  
> "' >> /tmp/bibfiles"
> 		end if
> 	end repeat
> 	do shell script "find " & thePapersPath & "|fgrep .|fgrep -v  
> DS_Store|sort > /tmp/papfiles"
> 	do shell script "sort -u /tmp/bibfiles > /tmp/bibfilesu"
> 	try
> 		set theResult to do shell script "diff /tmp/bibfilesu /tmp/ 
> papfiles > " & thePapersPath & "Extras.txt"
> 	end try
> end tell
>
> on replaceChars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
> 	if this_text contains the search_string then
> 		set oldAStid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
> 		set the item_list to every text item of this_text
> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
> 			set this_text to the item_list as string
> 		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldAStid
> 	end if
> 	return this_text
> end replaceChars
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2006, at 7:32 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:
>
>> On Aug 10, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>> The main thing AS buys you is good integration with BibDesk's
>>> objects; asking for Local-Url values is easier than parsing the
>>> BibTeX yourself (or did you have another approach in mind)?
>>
>> Good point; I was just going to do a manual parse.
>>
>> I'll work on the AppleScript for this tonight.
>>
>> Trevor
>>
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