Applescript Posix

all you have to do is set the correct path. I too, wish to use applescript to open files. Suppose I made an application with applescript that has a second application nested inside its package contents. ...

Apple's AppleScript Language Guide is useful, but it's not a tutorial or a quick start guide. It's really about the more arcane aspects of AppleScript. ...

I'm not sure how to do it in straight C, but you can do it via AppleScript like this:tell application "Finder" set the locked of file "Mac HD:path:to:file" to false end tellOr if you want to use Unix-style paths instead of HFS-style paths, like this:tell application "Finder" set the locked of file (posix file "/path/to/file") to false end tell You can also use the...

Hi Ewar, You don't even need to bring up the finder to open files using AppleScript, it can be all done in the background with code like follows: set filepath to POSIX path of "DandyDisk:Users:martin:Desktop:test.ppt" try set command to "open " & quoted form of filepath do shell script command end try

Not directly (AFAIK), but there are possible workarounds. I've done something like that with AppleScript. It requires making a script applet, and then setting the file to open with that applet. The applet in turn launches the desired unix command. The AppleScript code is simple: on open {x} tell application "Terminal" do script "/usr/local/bin/bonzo " & quoted form...

AppleScript takes paths in the classic Mac OS format, but if you need to pass it a Unix-style path, you can convert it from within AppleScript like so: tell application "Finder" activate open folder POSIX file "/path/to/folder" select item "filename" of window 1 end tell

You could ... 01. Select and copy the lines of code below. set {tDisk, cr2_Ext, jpg_Ext} to {"EOS_DIGITAL", "CR2", "JPG"} property hFolder : (POSIX path of (path to home folder) as string) tell application "Finder"

As far as I know, there's no simple way to do that. There are some complicated ways, though. :) I often need to convert paths from one type to another with AppleScript, where it's fairly easy: return POSIX path of file "Macintosh HD:Users" --returns "/Users" ...and the reverse... return posix file "/Users" --returns file "Macintosh HD:Users" You can embed...

Based on 'Alternatively I could save the PDF's for later printing.'. Partial sample code, to download a list of '.pdf' hypertext links. -- AppleScript code begins here -- set pdf_URLs to {"http://apps.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099h.pdf", "http://apps.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099sa.pdf"} -- Path of 'PDFs' folder (directory) - to be created, and downloaded '.pdf' files...

'Automator' contexual menu '.workflow' code ... on run {input, parameters} try tell application "Finder" to set der_Auswahl to selection if ((count der_Auswahl) = 1) then set der_Auswahlpfad to my neuer_Pfad(POSIX path of (der_Auswahl as string)) else set der_Auswahlpfad to {}