Find path of file.

Question

I'm very new to Applescript.
I have a file name extracted from a plist. (My desktop pic).
Is the any way within a script to find the path to this file?
Thanks for any help.
Steeb

Answer 1

The full path should be in there also, but if all you have is the name you can use the find utility. There may be several files with the same name in different locations, so you might want to change the source folder (the folder to look in) to narrow the search:
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #DAFFB6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
set sourceFolder to quoted form of text 1 thru -2 of POSIX path of (path to home folder) -- strip trailing delimiter
set fileName to quoted form of "test" -- the file name to match, can use wildcard characters
set theItems to (do shell script "/usr/bin/find " & sourceFolder & " -type f -and -iname " & fileName) -- case insensitive file name match
if the result is "" then
set theMessage to "none found"
else -- add returns between items for the dialog
set theMessage to paragraphs of theItems
set {tempTID, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, return}
set {theMessage, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {theMessage as text, tempTID}
end if
display alert "File names matching " & fileName & ":" message theMessage</pre>