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On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Jay Louvion wrote:

Hi all, I’m trying to get a script to select and reveal files in the Finder, using osascript and passing a variable list called argv whose item 1 is a folder path and the next items are the file names. I don’t know why, but it seems as though there si no way of using POSIX path in this case. Will I have to do a subroutine to find and replace “/” by “:”

Here is my code for the moment.

osascript /Path/to/the/script.scpt /Path/to/the/folder filename1.jpg filename2.jpg filename3.jpg filename4.jpg

This is the content of the script called from the osascript:

on run argv
   tell application "Finder"
       try
           set AliasList to {}
           set FolderPath to item 1 of argv
           repeat with FileName in (items 2 thru end of argv)
               set FileAlias to (POSIX path of FolderPath as text) & "/" & FileName as string as alias
               set AliasList to AliasList & FileAlias
           end repeat
           select AliasList
           activate
           reveal selection
       on error mistake number nmr
           if nmr is not -128 then
               activate
               display dialog "error number " & nmr & return & mistake
           end if
       end try
   end tell
end run

References:
	>POSIX path with osascript (From: Jay Louvion <email@hidden>)