Name
every
Syntax
tell app "Finder" to get every file of extensions folder
Description
Using the every
syntax returns a
list
of items in a container, such as files in a
folder, words in a document, or cells in a database record. You can
get the equivalent return value by dropping the
every
keyword and making the object plural, as in
words of document 1. This statement returns a value of type
list
whose items are all the words from document
1. You have to check an application’s dictionary,
however, to make sure that the plural form is allowed for the
particular object.
The every
form is very useful for grabbing the
property values of a group of objects and storing them in a single
list. Telling the Finder to:
get physical size of every file in extensions folder
or:
get physical size of files in extensions folder
returns the amount of disk space in bytes that each extensions folder file is taking up.
Examples
tell app "FileMaker Pro" to get cells of current record (* returns a list containing the values in each column of the currently active record or row in an open database *) tell app "FileMaker Pro" to get name of every cell of current record (* returns the field names for the currently active database *)
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