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 ...

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?

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: That depends on whether you pass in the -E flag. See the find man page. On the find man page for the -regex and -regex parameters, here is the information: -regex pattern True if the whole path of the file matches pattern using regular expression. To match a file named './foo/xyzzy', you can use the regular expression './[xyz]' or './foo/.', but not 'xyzzy' or '/foo/'. -iregex pattern Like -regex, but the match is case insensitive. P.S. This forum modifies forum posts so that symbols disappear. There is a double left slash in this expression, and the forum deleted one slash and only one slash remained: './[^~][^/]\. xlsm$'

eskimo, if there are quotes in the text ", then an error occurs. There can be any characters in my text.

Is this a file system path? Or something else? It's just text that needs to be written inside a text file. The text can be anything, even hieroglyphs. A common everyday task: to write something to a text file. What surprises you here, I can't understand. Have you never written anything to a file in your life?

The thing that confused me here is your reference to do shell script. I just don't understand AppleScript and don't understand what it's called. I write a script using Google - what I find, I write, I don't understand what is called in AppleScript and why it is needed. write does not change the content of the text? Other commands, for example, printf, echo delete apostrophes '.

red_menace, thank you, there is such a thing for TextEdit, but I'm busy with other things right now and I don't know if I can figure it out.

And what about this question: does the recording not change the content of the text? Other commands, for example, printf, echo delete apostrophes '.

red_menace, I use Windows to view the help.

On Mac OS, the same problem. I don't know why you don't have this problem.

Yes, there is no such problem in Safari. The problem is in Google Chrome.

endecotp, yes, I know about “man”. Is it possible to see all possible commands using "man"? Now I know how to view information for one specific command.

eskimo, I copied this line to the Script Editor, the Script Editor returned an error: An unknown marker, and highlighted the "%" sign. % test -d "MyDir" ; echo $?

eskimo, But I need the code specifically for the Script Editor, because I plan to write scripts that will consist of several lines, not one. In the first message, I asked a question, can you give an answer to it, taking into account the Script Editor.