I found such a regular expression on the Internet, which is used in -iregex: './[^~][^/]\.xlsm$' What does it mean? Why do I need this: [^~] Why you need this: [^/] Here's why the first slash is needed: \.

Quote: You asked about AppleScript I'm just a user and I haven't figured out the terms yet: I don't understand where AppleScript is, where AppleScript isn't. And what is the name of what you proposed?

ssmith_c, I used shell command "find". You don't know how to do what I need using shell command "find"? application "Finder" returns the result in a very strange way, for example: folder ... of folder ... of folder ... of folder ... of folder ...