Q about coercion to POSIX file
Q about coercion to POSIX file
- Subject: Q about coercion to POSIX file
- From: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:49:33 +0100
I'm having some confusion with the coercion 'as POSIX file'.
First problem, getting a 'special folder' as a posix path (using
'Applications' as an example):
set myPath to (path to "apps") as POSIX file
--> fails, 'Can't make <blah> into a POSIX file'.
set myPath to ((path to "apps") as string) as POSIX file
-->file ":Macintosh HD/Users/brennan/Applications/"
Why do I need to go to string first? Can't I coerce directly from an
alias?
Secondly, why does a colon get added to the beginning? If I want to feed
this path to 'do shell script' I would apparently have to strip the colon
away first. Am I missing something?
This is Applescript 1.9.1 with Script Editor 2.0 (v36) (a beta?)
BTW, I realise that I can also do
set myPath to POSIX path of (path to "apps")
and
set myPath to POSIX path of "Some:Arbitrary:PathString"
--> "/Some/Arbitrary/PathString"
Which is good, but it seems to me that 'POSIX path of' also converts
'backwards', sort of.
set myPath to (POSIX path of "test/hello")
--> "/test:hello"
What is the thinking behind this?
Brennan
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