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  • Subject: Re: Given a POSIX Path...
  • From: Marconi <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:24:43 -0700

At 8:49 AM +1100 12/6/10, Shane Stanley sent email regarding Re: Given a POSIX Path...:
On 6/12/10 8:35 AM, "Marconi" <email@hidden> wrote:

 But the posix path is all I have. The file dropped onto the droplet
 script allows me to get the full path to one of the two files to be
 renamed.

If your script is a droplet, then you are being passed an alias, not a POSIX path. Just don't convert it to a POSIX path in the first place.

As noted earlier, the first file can be renamed based on the alias info of the dropped item. Its companion file, whose name is derived by getting the dropped file's path, minus the file extension, is then used to create the path to the companion file to be renamed. So...



(Personally I'd still go the mv path, though...)

Which is what I did. After determining the dropped files full path, I'm just renaming both files using mv. A lot easier, but I didn't know if OS X would complain or have problems with my sneaking around Finder's back to rename files.


Thanks to those who offered assistance. mv was the answer.


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