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On Mar 22, 2017, at 20:46, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:

On 22 Mar 2017, at 6:58 pm, Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden> wrote:

Is there a more straightforward way to get the posix path of a Finder item (something I'd need to send to the Terminal as an argument):

tell application "Finder"
set projet_path to POSIX path of (selection as alias)
end tell

I'm fine with this, since it works, but it seems a bit convoluted.

It's not really convoluted enough, unless you're happy to have an error when there's more than one item selected. If you want just the first item -- where first might admittedly be a moving target -- you would use something like:

I see. So basically I got the thing right from the start *except* for that right ? :-) I am *so* getting better at AS everyday...

The thing is just a way to call an app from the command line to act on a folder that I select manually (instead of copying the folder, turning to Terminal, typing the command, space, pasting the path, hitting return...) So I guess I would know if I selected more than one item, but thank you for the reminder that one always need to check for all the cases for error handling.

tell application "Finder"
set projet_path to POSIX path of item 1 of (selection as alias list)
end tell

Jean-Christophe

References:
	>path of a Finder item (From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>)
	>Re: path of a Finder item (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)