Apple - How to change AppleScript path to a Terminal-style path?
Use quoted form of the POSIX path of input
. Without the quoted form of
part, it won't handle funny characters (like spaces) in filenames correctly. See this Apple technote.
Ok...this was easier than I had realized. After some Googling, it looks like what I need here is the POSIX path of
command. This converts a given path to a Unix style path, which is the type of path you would see/use in Terminal. So:
POSIX path of input
Gives me a path like:
/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple Scripts/
It seems to take into account that you just need a /
at the beginning of the path, rather than the hard drive name. It does not, however, escape \
spaces (or handle special characters) in the path. So, as the other answer here mentions, you need to place the path in quotes ( "
or '
) in order for those spaces (or special characters) to be interpreted literally. You accomplish this by using quoted form of
. Here it is:
quoted form of the POSIX path of the input
-- gives a path like: '/Users/Matthew/Documents/Programming/Apple Scripts/'