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MacOSX Terminal e os Alias do Finder | VidaGeek.net — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:01:49 +0000

[...] ai que eu achei um post muito legal no blog do theapotek. Ele explica como alterar o seu .bashrc para que o comando cd execute o seguinte [...]

George O'Connor — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:04:57 +0000

Ah, the power of Google:

How to create a Finder alias from shell script?

[Hey, looks like you answered your own question. Thanks for coming back and posting.
--Kristofer]

George O'Connor — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:40:39 +0000

Now all I need is a command-line method of creating a Finder alias. Any ideas?

youROCK — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:00:53 +0000

Under my Leopard, I replaced

if the kind of theItem is “alias” then
get the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text)
end if

with only

get the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text)

and everything began to work

[Thanks! If I ever upgrade to Leopard, I'll be sure to post an updated version of the script. Thanks for your help. --Kristofer]

Avi — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:21:16 +0000

Brilliant!