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Appends text to a file. To be used with Shortcuts.
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Append to File.js
// Variables used by Scriptable.
// These must be at the very top of the file. Do not edit.
// icon-color: deep-blue; icon-glyph: file-signature;
let text = args.shortcutParameter
let fm = FileManager.iCloud()
let filePath = args.fileURLs[0]
let content = fm.readString(filePath)
let newText = content + "\n" + text
fm.writeString(filePath, newText)
Script.complete()
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bestmacfly commented Oct 31, 2020 •
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Hi, thank you for this example. Shouldn’t downloadFileFromiCloud be used before readString to make sure that the file is already stored locally? If so, could you enhance your example? At the moment I‘m struggling a little bit with this...An example would help a lot.

Thx a lot!

Mark

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