As an example, it will display the Mac and UNIX path of the current Finder item, then open a terminal window and give a file-listing of the current finder-item.
Read the rest of the article for the Mac to UNIX path conversion script -- you'll have to enter this into ScriptEditor and save it in order to use it, of course.
on run
tell application "Finder"
set this_item to the selection as alias
end tell
display dialog of (this_item as text)
set mypath to posix_path(this_item)
display dialog of mypath
set the clipboard to mypath
end run
on posix_path(mac_path)
set mac_path to (mac_path as text)
set root to (offset of ":" in mac_path)
set rootdisk to (characters 1 thru (root - 1) of mac_path)
tell application "Finder"
if (disk (rootdisk as string) is the startup disk) then
set unixpath to "/" & (characters (root + 1) thru end of mac_path)
else
set unixpath to "/Volumes:" & mac_path
end if
end tell
set chars to every character of unixpath
repeat with i from 2 to length of chars
if item i of chars as text is equal to "/" then
set item i of chars to ":"
else if item i of chars as text is equal to ":" then
set item i of chars to "/"
else if item i of chars as text is equal to "'" then
set item i of chars to "\\'"
else if item i of chars as text is equal to "\"" then
set item i of chars to "\\" & "\""
else if item i of chars as text is equal to "*" then
set item i of chars to "\\*"
else if item i of chars as text is equal to "?" then
set item i of chars to "\\?"
else if item i of chars as text is equal to " " then
set item i of chars to "\\ "
else if item i of chars as text is equal to "\\" then
set item i of chars to "\\\\"
end if
end repeat
return every item of chars as string
end posix_path

