From: Gabriele Marrone <gabriele.marrone@...>
Date: 2006-11-22T06:27:20+09:00
Subject: Re: OS X File information question


On 21/nov/06, at 19:41, Jonathan Waddilove wrote:

> OS X (tiger) stores some useful information about files, including
> "where from" and "spotlight commnets".
>
> Is there an (easy) way to access these fields from Ruby?

Give a look here: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/spotlight.html
Under the "Command-Line tool" section you can find something  
interesting.

For example:

   piastrella:~/Desktop$ mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment test.txt
   test.txt -------------
   kMDItemFinderComment = "This is a Spotlight comment."

You could wrap that tool in a Ruby class or something like that.

>
> Many thanks, Jonathan

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Gabriele Marrone