System Events duplicate command

Subject: System Events duplicate command
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:00:41 -0500

I recently complained that ...

tell application "System Events"

duplicate aFile to destinationFolder with properties {name:newName}

end tell

ignores the phrase 'with properties { ... }'. (bug?)

My work-around was to use this handler ...

on copyFile(fileAlias, targetAlias, newFileName)
-- fileAlias is an alias to the source file, targetAlias is an alias to the destination folder and newFileName is a string
set sourcePath to (quoted form of POSIX path of fileAlias)
set targetPath to (quoted form of (POSIX path of ((targetAlias as text) & newFileName)))
try
do shell script "cp -n -p " & sourcePath & space & targetPath
return ((targetAlias as text) & newFileName) as alias
end try
return {}
end copyFile

It seems to do exactly what I need.

Does anyone with more unix experience than I see any problems here?

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