File search

[madddog]

Ran into a snag after my last post. I need to search a directory to see if a file exists if it does I can rename and copy it elsewhere.

The files in the directory look something like this "_Here", "_there", "_Yonder". The length of the file does not matter. There is no extension. The only character common is the underscore.

So my steps are: Look in a directory for (1) file that starts with an underscore. If it exists copy and move the copy to another location. If the file does not exist move on to the next directory.

I have all the rest done except the file search coding.

What I'm having to do today is get files out of our filevault to use. There are thousands of them. The vault manager is hosed til the software provider comes up with a fix.

I'm brain dead right now........

Thanks!

[dee-u]

Have a look at this if it helps. You can modify it to suit your needs.