why this can't be undone

[Huidong]

Before I tried the following command

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::moveto "<curpath>", "<curitem>\*"

in order to move contents of the last selected folder out. It worked, but I noticed that this can not be undone! Why's that?
Thank you.

[admin]

Before I tried the following command

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::moveto "<curpath>", "<curitem>\*"

in order to move contents of the last selected folder out. It worked, but I noticed that this can not be undone! Why's that?
Thank you.

This is because of the wildcard. The wildcard is passed directly to the shell in this case; therefore the actually moved files are unknown to XY. So XY cannot undo the move.

BTW, I don't really understand what you want. Can you define your task once more, please.

[Huidong]

Thank you, I see why to some extent.
What I want is to move all stuff inside a selected folder (hence <curitem>\*) out of the folder (move up one level), i.e. suck things out of a folder, that's it. To me that's the weakest version of a program called "Suction"
http://mike.geek-republic.com/software/suction/
which does the suction recursively no matter how deep the dir structure is.

[admin]

Thank you, I see why to some extent.
What I want is to move all stuff inside a selected folder (hence <curitem>\*) out of the folder (move up one level), i.e. suck things out of a folder, that's it. To me that's the weakest version of a program called "Suction"
http://mike.geek-republic.com/software/suction/
which does the suction recursively no matter how deep the dir structure is.

Merge them all into one folder, hence risking multiple overwrites?

[Huidong]

I'm aware of that, but I use it only when I know all the contents have different names.

[Huidong]

Without recursion this is a trivial command since I can go into the folder, selection all, and cut and paste manually. It becomes worthy if it can do recursion down to the deepest level.

[admin]

OK, got it. In the next beta version you can do this:

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// suction: move all files (recursively) from the folder selected in
// the file list (<curitem>) up to the current folder
  $filelist = folderreport("files", "r", <curitem>, "r", , "|");
  moveto <curpath>, $filelist;

[admin]

OK, got it. In the next beta version you can do this:

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// suction: move all files (recursively) from the folder selected in
// the file list (<curitem>) up to the current folder
  $filelist = folderreport("files", "r", <curitem>, "r", , "|");
  moveto <curpath>, $filelist;

OK, you can try this now with v9.90.0936. (It even can be undone.)

[Huidong]

This is truly awesome, I'll go and have a try. So "files" is a new type, and you added separator as the sixth argument, is that right?
Thanks!

[Huidong]

Tried, it worked perfectly for single folder, but I wonder if it's possible to do it for multiple selected folders? I tried <selitems> instead of <curitem> but didn't work.

[RalphM]

@Huidong
You're aware there's an edit feature for posts on this forum, aren't you?

It makes reading a topic somehow tiresome if there's quite a number of posts from just one person without anybody else chiming in.
So I'd kindly ask you to edit the previous post if no one else posted a reply in between, thanks.

[tiago]

Don:
Any way to force this to report subfolders contents apart?
$filelist = text folderreport("files", "r", , "r", , "|");

So instead of

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C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\bookmarks.html
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userChrome-example.css
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userContent-example.css
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\localstore.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\mimeTypes.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\prefs.js

I'd have

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C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\bookmarks.html
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\localstore.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\mimeTypes.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\prefs.js
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userChrome-example.css
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userContent-example.css

[admin]

Tried, it worked perfectly for single folder, but I wonder if it's possible to do it for multiple selected folders? I tried <selitems> instead of <curitem> but didn't work.

Easy (needs v9.90.0936 or later):

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// suction: move all files (recursively) from all folders selected in
// the file list up to the current folder
  foreach($token, <get selecteditemspathnames |>) {
    $filelist = folderreport("files", "r", $token, "r", , "|");
    moveto <curpath>, $filelist;
  }

[admin]

Don:
Any way to force this to report subfolders contents apart?
$filelist = text folderreport("files", "r", , "r", , "|");

So instead of

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C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\bookmarks.html
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userChrome-example.css
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userContent-example.css
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\localstore.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\mimeTypes.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\prefs.js

I'd have

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C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\bookmarks.html
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\localstore.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\mimeTypes.rdf
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\prefs.js
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userChrome-example.css
C:\FirefoxPortable\App\DefaultData\profile\chrome\userContent-example.css

Nope.

[Huidong]

Tried, it worked perfectly for single folder, but I wonder if it's possible to do it for multiple selected folders? I tried <selitems> instead of <curitem> but didn't work.

Easy:

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// suction: move all files (recursively) from all folders selected in
// the file list up to the current folder
  foreach($token, <get selecteditemspathnames |>) {
    $filelist = folderreport("files", "r", $token, "r", , "|");
    moveto <curpath>, $filelist;
  }

Perfect! Learning new stuff, powerful stuff; easy for masters, but I never even heard of foreach!
Thank you very much.