For those of you fortunate enough to have such a new version of OS X that your Library aren’t indexed by spotlight anymore, please do try this:
do shell script " mdimport ~/Library"
I have gotten that line from Technical Q&A QA1475: Tips for searching Headers, APIs and ADC reference material.
But it should work equally well for stuff stored in the Library folder.
The Document just mentioned, puts the scripts in the posts above in a whole new light, making them less necessary, once you have read and adapted to the Q&A, but there should still be some use for them.
Here is a script for importing the headerr file for you for good measure (from 1475), I believe that you from Snow Leopard onwards then can write name: stdio.h for instance, in the Spotligt bar.
do shell script "mdimport /usr/include
mdimport /usr/local/include
mdimport /System/Library/Frameworks"
And while I am at it, here are two snippets for turning Airport on and off:
do shell script "networksetup -setairportpower en1 on"
I knew you’d guess it but:
do shell script "networksetup -setairportpower en1 off"
Should you have the need to debug quicklook, as it stops to work, then start looking for plugins that are in either /Library/QuickLook and ~/Library/QuickLook, and has a modification date back to 2007 .
This is script that installs a git repo for an Xcode 5 project when either you are upgrading the project to Xcode 5, or forgot/refused to install a git repo in the first place.
You should stand on the root folder of the project in a Finder window, and execute the script from there. The folder structure of the Xcode project should be willy nilly, with a folder within the root folder of the project that carries the same name.
The script is kindof a state machine. It works as it should, but may be hard to modify.
You may want to modify it slightly if you are running Xcode 3 or Xcode 4 alongside Xcode 5.
global theLoc
set situ to 1
installGitRepo(situ)
on installGitRepo(situ)
global theLoc
tell application "Finder"
try
if situ = 1 then
set theSel to selection
if theSel is {} then error number 3000
set theKind to class of item 1 of theSel
if theKind is not folder then error number 3000
set didSelect to false
else
set theSel to {}
set end of theSel to choose folder default location theLoc with prompt "Select Xcode root folder."
set didSelect to true
end if
set theName to name of item 1 of theSel
if not didSelect and not (exists folder theName of (item 1 of theSel)) then error number 3001
set pxPath to quoted form of POSIX path of (item 1 of theSel as alias)
set repoExists to (do shell script "cd " & pxPath & "; test -d .git && echo \"true\" || echo \"false\"") as boolean
if repoExists then
display alert "A git repository is already in place"
if situ = 2 then set target of Finder window 1 to item 1 of theSel
set situ to -1
else
--every thing so far is okay time to create the git repo.
set pxPath to quoted form of POSIX path of (item 1 of theSel as alias)
do shell script "cd " & pxPath & " ; mkdir .git ; cat \"UserInterfaceState.xcuserstate
build
*.pbxuser
*.perspectivev3
*.mode1v3
*~
*~.nib
*~.xib
.DS_Store
xcuserdata/\" >.git/.gitignore;git init; git add .; git commit -m \"initial commit\""
display alert "Successfully created .git repo for Xcode Project " & theName
if situ = 2 then set target of Finder window 1 to item 1 of theSel
set situ to 0
end if
on error e number n
if n = -128 then
set situ to -3
else if n < 3000 then
display alert "Unrecoverable error:
" & e
set situ to -2
else if n = 3000 then
set theTarget to name of its target of Finder window 1 -- as alias as text
display alert "No folder selected in " & theTarget
set situ to 2
else if n = 3001 then
set theFolder to name of item 1 of theSel
display alert "No folder of folder " & theFolder & " named " & theFolder & ".
The folder can't be the root folder of an Xcode project."
set situ to 2
end if
end try
if situ > 0 then set theLoc to target of Finder window 1 as alias
end tell
if situ > 0 then
installGitRepo(situ)
else
if situ = 0 then
set theLoc to missing value
if running of application "Xcode" is true then
tell application "Finder" to display alert "You must restart Xcode to make it acknowledge the repo."
else
tell application "Finder" to display alert "You can start Xcode to use source control."
end if
else if situ = -1 then
tell application "Finder" to display dialog "Do you want to create a repo for another folder?" with icon note
set situ to 1
installGitRepo(situ)
end if
end if
end installGitRepo
I updated the script above, so that if the folder structure deviates from having subfolder with the same name, then you are allowed to use the same root folder, whence you select the folder the second time around, which you are forced to.
I am a fan of this script, since it lets me play with other peoples examples/code, without fear of not being able to go back to the original, and also without the hassle of having several copies of the same project, and the hurdles of figuring out which is which.
