Script to select files in a folder based on extension

Does anyone have a script that would select files in a folder based on extension, then move the files somewhere else?

Hi Kagey and welcome!
You have to be completely accurate about the path. If your hard disk is called "Macintosh HD", then it's
every file of folder "Macintosh HD:Applications:FileMaker Pro 6 Folder" whose name extension = "tab"
You can generalise this for other users if you can't be sure about the name of their hard disk:
set apps_folder to path to applications folder as string
set fmp_folder to apps_folder & "FileMaker Pro 6 Folder"
tell application "finder" to get every file of folder fmp_folder whose name extension = "tab"
HTH
H
PS - well done in the footy

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-- Code starts here --
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Using AppleScript to sort files Into Specified Folders based on Extension

Hi All!
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Hi,
applescript_problems wrote:
for example:
master folder name: 1
sub folder path: 1>2>3>4>5
insdie folder 5 theirs 3 folders: 5a, 5b, 5c
i want to name my files like so: "name_5a" "name_5b" "name_5c
i want the scrip to pick up all the files that ends with the name "_5a" and place them in folder 5a
I presume that the files are in the master folder not in the subFolders, that the files has an name extension.
This script take the first two characters after the last underscore.
It will move the file in the subfolder, according to the two characters found.
set targetFolder to (POSIX file "") as alias --<-- drop the master folder between the double quotes
tell application "Finder"
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end tell
on getChar_1_2AfterLastUnderscore(t)
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-- select a number of files in the Finder
-- run the script
-- get a prompt for a new folder name and location
-- move (not copy) the selected files into this folder
Sounds possible but so far eludes me. Any help please?

Thanks, that helped a lot.
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Hey,
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