OpenRuby.com

26 Sep '12, 2pm

Simple example of writing a Launch Agent. Good reading in the linked Apple documentation.

September 26, 2012 Tagged: Outkast automate tasks clean directories os x plist zsh Comments (View) Keep your Downloads Directory So Fresh and So Clean Clean Clutter in programmer workspaces, whether digital or physical, add a mental cost. An area of common clutter is the ~/Downloads directory in Mac OS X. I want to clean it up… programmatically. The Goal I want a background job to find files in ~/Downloads which haven’t been modified within the past week and move them into ~/.Trash . In zsh, we do: mv ~/Downloads/*(mw+1) ~/.Trash Read man zshexpn for more awesomeness on shell expansion. Launch Agents For a user-specific background job, Apple recomends creating a Launch Agent , which is a .plist XML file located in ~/Library/LaunchAgents . ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.thoughtbot.cleandownloads.plist will run my script once an hour: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOC...

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