macOS AppleScript: Counting files of a certain type in a folder

[mduser63]

I'm trying to count all the files of a certain type in a folder in an AppleScript I'm writing. Does anybody know how to do this. I can't count all the files in the folder with the following code:

set NoOfFiles to count each file in theFolder

But, I can't figure out how to only count a particular type of file (in this case FLAC files). Ideally I'd like a way to count files that have a particular extension, but counting based on the "kind" attribute in the finder would be ok too.

 

[HexMonkey]

Try this:

tell application "Finder"
	set NoOfFiles to count of (files in folder theFolder whose name extension is "flac")
end tell

 

[mduser63]

Thanks for the reply. That worked perfectly.

 

[jeremy.king]

Who needs applescript?

ls -l *.flac | wc -l

 

[leicaman]

Who needs applescript?

ls -l *.flac | wc -l

Anyone who wants to do something more than once I would guess.