Re: tilde shortcut
Re: tilde shortcut
- Subject: Re: tilde shortcut
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:49:20 -0400
Tilde is a shell thing, not an AppleScript thing. Inside a "do shell
script" command string, unquoted "~" by itself expands to the value of
the "HOME" environment variable, which the system initially sets to
the user's home directory, while ' "~"+ & username ' expands to the
home directory of the named user according to directory services.
However, if you're in Applescript and want to access the current
user's Documents folder, just use
"path to documents folder from user domain".
which is an alias that you can then use anywhere aliases are accepted
in AS, or convert to a quoted-form POSIX path (which will be
pre-expanded, no tildes) to use in do shell script, or whatever.
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm trying to remember how the tilde (~) is used in Applescript to replace the HD/Users/Name to link to the Documents folder to make a script more universal.
>
> OR a link to where I can find this.
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Robert Poland - Fort Collins, CO
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>
>
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