What's the best way to enumerate a set of files and folders using FinalBuilder?
The context of my question is, I want to compare a source folder with a destination folder, and replace any matching files in the destination folder that are older than the source folder.
Any suggestions?
ok, for future reference, it turns out that under the catgeory "Iterators" there are two very helpful actions.
File/Fileset Iterator
Folder Iterator
Further digging revealed the Robocopy Mirror action, which does exactly what I was looking for, namely syncing the destination folder with the source folder. No need to write my own file iteration routines.
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I’m using Zip utility from the Info-Zip library to compress the tree of catalogs to get xlsx-file.
For that I’m using the next command:
zip -r -D res.xlsx source
source - contains the correct directory tree of the xlsx file.
But if you then look at the resulting file structure, the source directory will be included in the paths of all files and directories at the top level, and MS Office Excel will not be able to open this file. This is a well known problem. To avoid it zip.exe needs to be inside of the dest directory.
The problem is that I want to use the source code of this utility in my project, so this leads me to be unable to call my process, which will be responsible for compressing directories, to get xlsx files from these directories.
I’ve tried to find a place in the zip source code, where the parent catalog appending on the top-level happens. But seems
it is done implicitly.
Who can suggest how it can be done?
I have a folder of approximately 1800~ .7z files. Some of them uncompress as a single file, some uncompress as a folder with several of the same type of file. If I were to uncompress all of them at the same time, what I end up with is a folder full of .7z files, folders containing multiple of a file type, and multiple single instances of that same file type.
What I would like to do is run a script that would take all of the same file types, from all containing folders below the main folder, and copy them to another specified folder. I unfortunately don't have really any experience with Apple Scripts and while this may be simple, it sounds insurmountable to me. Any input would be appreciated.
I'm using Xcode (with C++) and my project layout (in the file system, not in Xcode) looks like this:
SubfolderA
-file_A_1, file_A_2
SubfolderB
-file_B_1, file_B_2
Right now I've set up this structure in Xcode via groups. And so, when I want to include file_A_2 in file_B_1, I write #include "file_A_2" in file_B_1.
Is there some way to make an inclusion look like #include "/SubfolderA/file_A_2", so that I can easily see to what directory/subfolder an included file belongs?
One way to see what's going on is to look at the Build Log and expand the line for compiling sourcefile.m. Look at the -I options being passed to the compiler.
If it's not to your liking you can add the source tree in the Build Settings > Header Search Paths to include $(ProjectDir)/srcroot and make it recursive, which saves you from adding each sub-folder individually.
In my experience this has never been necessary, however, as far as I can remember.
As far as the Xcode folders are concerned, if the top-level source folder is added then all sub-folders are automatically added when you add them to the filesystem, saving the hassle of keeping them in sync. You might need to add the top-level folder under the Source Files group for this to work, however.
Surprisingly, in Xcode's Build Settings I've added to User Header Search Paths non-recursive path to my project. This solved my problem.
I ended up here when I was having an issue with XCode while trying to include a header in a group by doing
#include "MyGroup/MyHeader.h"
Turns out the project structure and the file system weren't in sync, so I just had to remove my group from the project, put it in the correct place in Finder, then drag and drop it back into the project in the correct place and it worked for me.
I'm not sure if this is necessary or not, but I also have already set up my app's working directory because I am doing some game programming and need to be able to load in .png and make textures.
When installing OpenCart extensions, you´re generally given a bunch of folders that should be copied to the root directory and the extension files will find their way to the right subfolders. This works great in FTP software, but on a local installation (Mac OSX) using Finder, this operation makes Finder want to overwrite the folders completely, deleting the actual site and just keep the extension.
I can hold Alt when dragging the folders and it will give me the option to not overwrite, the problem is I have hidden files visible, which means there's now a .DS_STORE file in each folder and the ”Hold ALT”-approach doesn’t work in case there are ANY duplicate files in any of the folders.
I’m sure someone out there has stumbled upon the same problem, any ideas for how to solve such a simple but annoying problem? I do not wish to use FTP software for local file management.
I have the same problem, and i found 3 different ways to solve this:
a - use another file manager, i personally use "Transmit" to do this sort of things;
b - use terminal, like: ditto <source> <destination>. Or easier way just type ditto, and drag the source folder, then drag the destination folder, all inside source will merge inside destination;
c - unzip the plugin, inside the OC folder using the terminal, like: tar -zxvf plugin.zip;
Been fighting with Mercurial's .hgignore for a while under Windows.
I have a folder named Upload which is currently empty. I do want it tracked so I added a .empty file in it which work fine. I want this so that new developers doing an hg clone get the Upload document required for the application.
Thing is I never want the folder to be populated with anything on the source control itself (test uploads from a development machine).
Example:
If I add Public/image.jpg it wouldn't be tracked.
Additionally I would like it for sub directory to be tracked. So if developer adds
Upload/users/.empty I would like this to be tracked.
Is this possible with regex voodoo?
In mercurial (and unlike in svn and cvs) adding a file overrides the .hgignore file, so you can put this in your .hgignore:
^Uploads/.*
and your Upload/.empty that you added will still be created on update and thus they'll get the directory.
Getting it to ignore files in upload but not not ignore files in subdirectories in Upload could be done with:
^Uploads/[^/]*$
which says: ignore anything that Starts with Uploads and has no further slashes in it.
Really though, you should be creating Uploads with your build/install/configure script when possible, not with the clone/update.
Try putting
Uploads/(?!.empty)
in .hgignore in the root of the repository
Try
^Uploads\b.*/(?!\.empty)[^/]+$
This should match any path starting with Uploads where the text after the last slash (=filename) is anything but .empty.