10.4: A script to view Spotlight metadata in text files
Jun 14, '05 10:26:00AM • Contributed by: mark hunte
Jun 14, '05 10:26:00AM • Contributed by: mark hunte
When reading this hint, I realised that to read the metadata of a file(s), I did not always want to go to the Terminal or open the clumsy Get Info window.
So here is a simple script to get the selected file(s) metadata, and open them in a text file. It can be used with most hotkey apps to make it usable via keyboard shortcut:
(* This script will open any selected file/s in finder and do a shell
script "mdls" to get the metadata of the file/s, and display the result
in a Texedit document for each file *)
tell application "Finder"
set miTem to selection
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in miTem
set this_item to item i of miTem as string
set this_item to POSIX path of this_item
do shell script "mdls " & quoted form of this_item & " | open -f"
end repeat
end tell
[robg adds: I tested this one, and it works as described...]
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