Use Automator to filter out every third file?

I have 4,500 images and I'd like to pull every third image and put them in a separate folder. The files are numbered, so I'd like to get 0003, 0006, 0009, ...etc.
Any ideas?
They are bracketed exposures for an HDR time lapse, so they have exposure bias attached in their metadata (+1, 0, -1) but I can't figure out how to sort by that info in Finder, Bridge, or anything else...
Thanks!

add the following apple script: paste it into your Automator workflow (utility: run apple script)
it accepts a folder and passes on the first file, regardless of its name
on run {input, parameters}
-- input must be a folder or a list of folders
-- result: the first item in the folder
          tell application "Finder"
                    set myfolder to the the first item of the input
                    return the first item of the myfolder
          end tell
end run
then (in Automator) add (from files and folders) "move Finder items" and select a destination.
Good luck
Leonie

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Hi all,
I need to extract parts of lines of a ASCII file and didn't get it done with my low knowledge of regular expressions
The file contains hundreds of lines and I am just interested in a few lines, within that lines I just need a part of the data.
One original line looks like that:
TP3| |TP_SMD|Nicht in Stueckliste|~TP TP_SMD TESTPUNKT|-|0|87.770|157.950|0|top|c| |other|TP_SMD|TP_SMD_60RF-TP
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I can open that file, read in each line but then I am struggling to pick out only the lines of interest (starting with TP), taking that TP with its number and the coordinates following later on and then writing these shortened lines to a new text file. So the new line should look like that:
TP3; 87.770;157.950;0 (It doesn't matter if the separator will be ; or |)
I thought of using regular expressions - is that the right way or is there a better approach?
Thanks & regards,
gedi, using LabVIEW 8.5
Regards,
gedi

Hi max,
for finding a specific part of a string you can use the "Match Pattern" VI, it is located in the Strings Palette.
Maybe the Extract Numbers.vi example in the examples browser library can help you.
What I did to filter out my data of interest is first to sort out only the columns which I want to have -
then there are still a lot of lines remaining I don't need (this is the thing described above).
The rest I am going to filter out with a (then easy) regular expression with the "Match Pattern" VI.
Regards,
gedi
Regards,
gedi

How to use Automator to batch convert xls/xlsx files into tab OR pipe delimited text file.

If you have answer, please provide specific and detailed steps.
Situation 1:
Start:
150+ files in .xls OR .xlsx format
data contains many characters EXCEPT "Tab"
Process:
Use Automator to:
Select Files from Finder window
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files have identical names to those from "Start:"
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Start:
150+ files in .xls OR .xlsx format
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Process:
Use Automator to:
Select Files from Finder window
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If your post is addressed to my response then the answer is you have to write your own or search on-line to see if something exists to do what you want.
As you note there is no pre-built script for this.
regards
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano - Are you certain there isn;t something in Excel to export as a tab delimited file?
This link Convert An Excel Spreadsheet To A Tab Delimited Text File seems to indicate that the function is in Excel already.

Using image data read out from a file

Hi,
Having used the GetBitmapFromFileEx(), GetBitmapInfoEx() to acquire the necessary image data (most of them is the .png format), then using the FileToArray() to put the image data in my own binary file, e.g., "mypicture.dat". My idea is that whenever need to use the image, I can read out it from mypicture.dat and then display it on a pcture control. But when loading the image data to the memory, I have no idea to map the image data buffer to an image resource, which can let to acquire a bitmap ID. Because from the cvi's image processing function lists, it seems that must through such as the GetBitmapFromFileEx(), GetBitmapFromFile() to acquire the image data buffer and the bitmap ID, then using SetCtrlBitmap() to diplay it. Is there any way to resolve the problem? Thanks.
David

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So the problem is: does your application worth the effort to study this documentation?
Edit: FYI part of this job has been already made in CVI by Guillaume Dargaud for his ReadSavePNG instrument driver. It's been a long time since I have used this instrument, as I/O operations on PNG files have been integrated into CVI since release 8 and support for JPEG files in release 7 or so. Nevertheless I saw functions in that instrument for accessing raw data in a PNG file so you may find them useful for your needs.
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Is there a way to find out ALL the files an FCP project uses?

Okay. Firstly, I'm an idiot. I don't know why, but at the START of the project, I didn't think I'd end up with so many little tiny bits and pieces... so I didn't really plan the organization of this thing. (My next project will be meticulously organized, I can assure you.)
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But is there a way (simple or not-so-simple) to find
out EVERY SINGLE FILE that's referenced on a
timeline? (I have lots of stuff imported into the
project that I know isn't used on any timeline, but
I'm afraid of moving or deleting things for fear of
never finding it again.)
I'd love to get some sort of "printout" (a list or
something) of every single file.
There is, go to browser and cntrl click on any one of the columns,
and select - show/source. A new column named "source" will pop up and will show where everything "lives". Click on the header at the top and it will justify the column as well. You'll notice this won't show anything for your seq.'s. of course, but will show stills/audio/motion files...
Once you have the new column, you can drag it next to the "name" column and get a grab of it and print it if you like, or whatever.
If you want to do this for just 1 seq., then can create a new bin and double click it to open it. Cntrl-A (select all) in your main seq. and just drag all into the new bin. You will see only what's in that seq. with the "source" column right next to it.
From what I've read, you seem to get the MM thing and it's obviously what you'll need to do to archive as the guys said. But what your missing is a file path system to where everything resides.
Hope this helps and that I've read you properly,
Peace
P-Book 1.5, 17" 2gsRAM Mac OS X (10.4.4) FCStudio

HELP! I can't filter out jsf-impl.jar

Every jar file can be filtered out of a deployment file EXCEPT jsf-impl.jar, Why?
JDeveloper (older) version of jsf-impl.jar is causing problem with a newer version in JBossAS 4.2.0.CR1 and consequently, throwing java.lang.ClassCastException error. I can filter out every other jar file but not jsf-impl.jar.
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(every document file of every folder in folder thePath) as alias list

On Dec 9, 2006, at 1:03 AM, Bill Hernandez wrote:
I use "set aList to get every file of every folder in startFolder" the references are to "document file path2file" instead of "alias to path2file", and I was not successful getting BBEdit to work with them without generating errors
On Dec 9, 2006, at 9:25 AM, Jim Correia wrote:
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set aList to get every file of every folder in startFolder
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Jim
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-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
on script_title()
Filename : getevery_file_ofevery.scpt (Script Debugger)
Author : Bill Hernandez
Version : 1.0.0
Updated : Tuesday, January 02, 2007 ( 6:15 PM )
end script_title
-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
on script_notes( )
This is a work around to the alias list problem I encountered
end script_notes
-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
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activate
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set aSel to (((every document file in folder thePath) & (every document file of every folder in folder thePath)) as alias list)
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set f_info to info for (alias ((item 1 of aSel) as text))
display dialog ("[2452] " & (get modification date of f_info) as string)
-- THIS DOES THE TRICK, it returns an alias list
set aSelection1 to (every document file in folder thePath) as alias list
set aSelection2 to ((every document file of every folder in folder thePath)) as alias list
set aSelection to (aSelection1 & aSelection2)
display dialog ("[2453] " & (get modification date of (item 1 of aSelection)) as string)
set f_info to info for (alias ((item 1 of aSelection) as text))
display dialog ("[2454] " & (get modification date of f_info) as string)
end tell
-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------

Hi Bill,
That's not really a bug. In this line:
set aSel to (((every document file in folder thePath) & (every document file of every folder in folder thePath)) as alias list)
two list are being concatenated which returns a list and 'as alias list' doesn't work on lists. You could do this:
set aSel to (every document file in folder thePath as alias list) & (every document file of every folder in folder thePath as alias list)
If there aren't anymore levels, then you can use 'entire contents':
every document file of entire contents of folder thePath as alias list
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try
set aSel1 to (every document file in folder thePath as alias list)
on error from o
set aSel1 to o as list
end try
try
set aSel2 to (every document file of every folder in folder thePath as alias list)
on error from o
set aSel2 to o as list
end try
set aSel to aSel1 & aSel2
There is another way to coerce finder references to something usable in other applications that can't deal with Finder references. You can coerce Finder references to strings using text item delimiters.
gl,

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You can execute those commands preceded by sudo, like...
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How can I use Automator to extract specific Data from a text file?

I have several hundred text files that contain a bunch of information. I only need six values from each file and ideally I need them as columns in an excel file.
How can I use Automator to extract specific Data from the text files and either create a new text file or excel file with the info? I have looked all over but can't find a solution. If anyone could please help I would be eternally grateful!!! If there is another, better solution than automator, please let me know!
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Link Time =
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1 875
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Column6
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filename1
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16789
1875
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xxxx
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Hello
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#     - every field is quoted
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EOF
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H

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EOF
For Automator workflow, you may use Run Shell Script action as follows, which will receive json files and yield out_YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS.csv on desktop.
Run Shell Script action
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#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/perl -CSDA -w <<'EOF' - "$@" > ~/Desktop/out_"$(date '+%F_%H%M%S')".csv
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use JSON::Syck;
$JSON::Syck::ImplicitUnicode = 1;
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my @paths = ('/upload_date', '/title', '/webpage_url');
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    my $r = $obj;
    for ( map { /(^.+$)/ } split /\//, $path ) {
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EOF
Tested under OS X 10.6.8.
Hope this may help,
H

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