Re: mac to unix path names
Re: mac to unix path names
- Subject: Re: mac to unix path names
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 07:29:24 -0700
On 5/2/03 6:57 AM, "Carl Albrecht-Buehler" <email@hidden> wrote:
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on 05/02/2003 8:17 AM, Ben Waldie wrote:
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> Give this a try...
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> set theMacOSPath to "Macintosh HD:Users:Shared:"
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> set theUnixPath to POSIX path of theMacOSPath
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Thanks a whole lot, Ben; that's just about the trick I was looking for! I
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have one concern though: This example yields the result of "/Macintosh
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HD/Users/Shared/". Is this path correct? Is the Users folder not actually
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simply a directory underneath "/"? I tried checking this by opening a
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terminal and typing in this path, and get "No such file or directory". This
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would make sense because there is no directory by the name of any disk under
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"/"
Use the name of your actual hard disk, not "Macintosh HD". Or use (path to
startup disk as Unicode text) to work anywhere.
set theMacOSPath to ((path to startup disk as Unicode text) &
"Users:Shared:")
set theUnixPath to POSIX path of theMacOSPath
--> "/Users/Shared/"
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Paul Berkowitz
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