Learning AppleScript for Beginners » POSIX

Deriving Alias and POSIX Paths

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:18:55 +0000

When deriving POSIX or alias paths, it is important to note that folder paths end in a punctuation character: ‘/’ for POSIX, and ‘:’ for aliases. Also, in both cases, when deriving the path to a specific document, there is no punctuation at the end.

This info can be very useful in batch processing in [...]

Creating a Calendar in TextEdit with Shell Script

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:58:41 +0000

This is sort of a fun script which gives you some idea of the power behind the UNIX side of Mac OS X. Impressive as this little bit of shell code is though, it only scratches the surface on what you can do combining the power of AppleScript with the shell.

display dialog [...]

Using Aliases and POSIX Paths

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:18:53 +0000

Over the time that I have been writing AppleScripts, I have found that one of the most difficult, if not frustrating, tasks of writing scripts is referencing files by path so that they can be accessed by other applications.

As you’ll see below, creating a reference that is understandable by the Finder is fairly [...]