Spotlight Comments (Mac OS X Tiger)

[Joseph Taylor]

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

 

[Anno Siegel]

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

 

[brian d foy]

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