I am working on a script put together from some code I have pieced together through Google.
The script looks at drives attached, in this case USB, eliminates the Boot drive, reformats each drive and copies a file to it.
I’ve got the reformat working but getting the path to the /dev/disk# and copying the file is at a standstill.
The Code looks like this so far:
— Code starts here —
set tList to do shell script “diskutil list | grep ‘/dev/disk’” – Obtain list of current volumes, in a string format.
set {oAStid, AppleScript’s text item delimiters} to {AppleScript’s text item delimiters, return}
set tList to text items of tList – List of current volumes, in a list format.
–set mList to text items of mList
set tList to rest of tList – Remove ‘boot’ volume from list.
set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to oAStid
repeat with i in tList – Cycle through list, attempting to reformat each listed volume.
do shell script ("diskutil eraseVolume ‘MS-DOS FAT32’ ‘UDISK 28X’ " & i) – Reformat individual volume.
delay 10 --wait 10 seconds for reformat to finish
set mList to do shell script ("diskutil info|grep -i ‘Volume Name:’ " & i) --get the Volume name
set dsk to path to desktop
set disk_name to (POSIX path of mList) --use the Volume name to copy the file
set file_to_copy to quoted form of (POSIX path of dsk & “child_protection.doc”)
set target_file to quoted form of (POSIX path of disk_name & “:child_protection.doc”)
do shell script "cp " & file_to_copy & space & target_file
end repeat
— Code ends here —
The script is ending prematurely with: grep: /dev/disk1: Resource busy on the line: set mList to do shell script ("diskutil info|grep -i ‘Volume Name:’ " & i)
How can I grab the mount point name and then copy the file I want to that mount point?
I’m not a programmer, obviously, and all I’m usually capable of is decent research. I will study this to get a greater understanding of what’s happening, but it does what I need it to!
If I wanted to pick a file instead of explicitly specifying one like “child_protection.doc” would I just use (choose file)? (without the quotes around it)???
I am ultimately trying to make this as flexible as possible so combined this with some other code from here to copy multiple files. So far, I have this, but it doesn’t seem to click:
--Code starts here ---
set theCommand to "cp "
set tList to paragraphs 2 thru -1 of (do shell script "/usr/sbin/diskutil list | /usr/bin/grep '/dev/disk'")
set the_files to choose file with prompt "What to Copy?" with multiple selections allowed without invisibles
repeat with Device_Node in tList
-- Reformat individual volume and return the volume path
set disk_path to last paragraph of (do shell script "/usr/sbin/diskutil eraseVolume 'MS-DOS FAT32' 'UDISK 28X' " & Device_Node & "
/usr/sbin/diskutil info " & Device_Node & " | /usr/bin/grep 'Mount Point:.*/' | /usr/bin/sed 's/.*Mount Point: *//'")
if disk_path starts with "/Volumes/" then
repeat with the_file in the_files
set the_unix_file_path to the quoted form of POSIX path of the_file
do shell script theCommand & the_unix_file_path
end repeat
end if
end repeat
tell application "Finder"
display dialog "Files Copied" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end tell
This is a 12-year-old script. Nonetheless, when you run the script in Script Editor, it should tell you where it’s failing. It would be helpful to know that.
