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SparrwHawk
SparrwHawk

Reputation: 14153

Copy directory of current window to clipboard on Mac

Is it possible to copy the full directory of the current active window on Mac?

e.g. say I have example.txt open in Sublime Text, can I execute an Apple Script that will grab the full path of that file? (without going to Finder).

The result would be that /Users/Bob/Dropbox/example.txt would then be in my clipboard.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 304

Answers (1)

Lri
Lri

Reputation: 27633

You could assign a shortcut to a script like this:

try
    tell application (path to frontmost application as text)
        set the clipboard to (path of document 1) as text
    end tell
on error
    try
        tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where frontmost is true)
            value of attribute "AXDocument" of window 1
        end tell
        do shell script "ruby -rcgi -e 'print CGI.unescape ARGV[0][16..-1]' " & quoted form of result
        set the clipboard to result
    end try
end try

The first method didn't work with Preview, TextMate 2, Sublime Text, or iChm, and the second method didn't work with Acorn.

Upvotes: 1

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