OK that will take a bit more. Are these NL books digital or tape recording, just currious
Greg On Jul 28, 2007, at 13:41 , Richard Most wrote:
Greg ls -lR foldername | grep "^d" | wc -l will do the same thing.What I want to do is set focus on a folder and run a program that will tell me the number of folders in the target folder. What I do not want to do is go into terminal to run the program. I can just open the folder and do VO keys + shift + end to get the count. This is more keystrokes than I want to do. Why I want the folder count is to check on a jaws script that I have running on one of my XP computers. This jaws script is used to automate the ripping and resampling of NLS talking books.On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:Here's a perl program that will do that. it will even speak the number of directories and the number of files. take the code below and save it to a file. make the file executable in the terminal like this: chmod 775 /path/to/perlcount.pl then run it like this: / path/to/perlcount.pl /path/to/directoryThis whole thing could be done from the command line like this: ls - tl /path/to/directory | grep -c '^d'The code below just makes this all nice and tidy with error checking.Below is the perl code itself along with some comments, line preceded by #:#!/usr/bin/perl #$testdir = $ARGV[0]; # put the first argument into the $testdir varriable this is the path to your directory.#let's make sure the path given is a directory and not a file. if (-d $testdir) {#It's a directory so let's count the number of ls entries that start with d and put that number in to $dircount.$dircount = `ls -tl $testdir | grep -c '^d'`; #display the number. print "Number of directories: $dircount\n"; #speak the number. `say "Number of directories:$dircount."`; } else { #the path didn't exist or was a file so we tell the user. print "Please use a path to a directory.\n"; `say "Please use a path to a directory."`; } #----END OF CODE---- On Jul 27, 2007, at 13:49 , Richard Most wrote:Howdy all,Is there a way to find out the number of folders in a folder without opening the target folder?Thanks for any help. Richard Most louie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverRichard Most louie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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