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Re: Finding and shelling out to a sh script in the same directory as the AppleScript
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Re: Finding and shelling out to a sh script in the same directory as the AppleScript


  • Subject: Re: Finding and shelling out to a sh script in the same directory as the AppleScript
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:15:25 -0800

Alias belongs to AppleScript and has one property:
alias (noun), pl aliases a file on a disk or server. The file must exist when you check the syntax of your script.


Property	Access	Type	Description
POSIX path	get	string	the POSIX path of the file

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On Feb 5, 2009, at 7:02 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Michelle Steiner <email@hidden > wrote:
So given an alias, you can't find out what folder it's in without the
Finder?

set text item delimiters to {":"}
set resourcesFolder to (text items 1 through -2 of (path to me as text)) as
text


Okay, "can't" was too strong a word. :)  I'm just surprised that
aliases don't have a container property...


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 >Re: Finding and shelling out to a sh script in the same directory as the AppleScript (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Finding and shelling out to a sh script in the same directory as the AppleScript (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Finding and shelling out to a sh script in the same directory as the AppleScript (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)

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