Make dir and copy file to dir before going ahead

[luco]

Guys, I'm building a workflow which uses pngquant to compress my png's. It works:

/Applications/ImageAlpha.app/Contents/Resources/pngquant {query}
killall Terminal

But I need to copy the selected file to a new folder before compressing it. Kinda backup. How can I do it? thanks!

[jdfwarrior]

Guys, I'm building a workflow which uses pngquant to compress my png's. It works:

/Applications/ImageAlpha.app/Contents/Resources/pngquant {query}
killall Terminal

But I need to copy the selected file to a new folder before compressing it. Kinda backup. How can I do it? thanks!

 

Make a folder called PNGTemp in your Documents folder. Create a workflow, add a File Filter, set the File Type to png, set your keyword, then add a Run Script item, leave the language to bash, untick the option to escape spaces, and set the script to do..

full="{query}"
fname=$(basename "$full")
cp "$full" ~/Documents/PNGTemp
/Applications/ImageAlpha.app/Contents/Resources/pngquant "~/Documents/PNGTemp/$fname"

I didn't test it all but I think that should work. It grabs the full path of the file you selected and saves that in a var called full, grabs only the file name and saves that in a var called fname, copies the selected file to ~/Documents/PNGTemp and then compresses the copy of the file, leaving the original in place.

[luco]

Yes, I understood, but I'm thinking about something like this:

 

images_folder/image.png (compressed)

images_folder/PNGTemp/image.png (original)

 

I want to create a folder in the folder where's is being called from.

 

Edit

 

Already got it!

full="{query}"
fname=$(basename "$full")
dir=$(dirname "$full")
mkdir "$dir"/png-original
cp "$full" "$dir"/png-original

Edited June 7, 2013 by luco

[jdfwarrior]

Yes, I understood, but I'm thinking about something like this:

 

images_folder/image.png (compressed)

images_folder/PNGTemp/image.png (original)

 

I want to create a folder in the folder where's is being called from.

 

Edit

 

Already got it!

full="{query}"
fname=$(basename "$full")
dir=$(dirname "$full")
mkdir "$dir"/png-original
cp "$full" "$dir"/png-original

Awesome, glad you got it figured out!