MacOS – AppleScript to copy images that names are multiple of 30 to another folder

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I have a folder with hundreds of pictures like this:
Montana_1.jpg, Montana_2.jpg, …, Montana_4500.jpg

I only want to use the pictures where the name is multiple of 30. I was wondering if an AppleScript would

Open the folder containing the pictures.
Copy only the pictures that are multiple of 30 like
Montana_30.jpg, Montana_60.jpg, …, Montana_120.jpg.
Move to another folder.

Another way could be to delete any picture that is not multiple of 30.

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You can do this from the command line. The following will match all images which are a multiple of 30 and copy them to the destination folder.

/bin/zsh -c "cp /path/to/source/Montana_{30..4500..30}.jpg /path/to/destination/"

Replace /path/to/source with the path to the containing folder for the images.
Replace 4500 with the number of the last image in the folder.
Replace /path/to/destination with the path to the containing folder where the images which are a multiple of 30 will be copied to.

To move instead of copy, replace cp with mv.
To use this in an AppleScript, you can ‘do shell script’.

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After you launched "Automator" and created a workflow:

Select "Files And Folders" at "Actions".
Double click on "Find Finder Items" and setup what and where to find your files. Which means: select the folder where the first group of pictures are stored. And enter the search condition (Name contains "whomever").
Run the workflow to see the result - you should see what you expect. Which means: you should see all the files containing "whomever".
Double click on "Create Archive" and setup how to name the archive and where to save it.
Add step 2 and 4 for the other 2 file name groups.
Run the workflow.

But I can not see why you need the "Automator" for this. You could do all this very easy in the Finder:

Select the files of the first group: click on the first file of one group (named "whomever..."), hold down the "shift" key and click on the last file of the first group.
Select "Compress" in the File menu of the Finder. You will get an archive named "Archive.zip". Rename it to "whomever.zip".
Proceed with step 1.

It might help to set the "View" of the Finder to "List".

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