[Macola]

Occasionally, I need to describe the full path name to a file in (say) an e-mail message, and it would be much easier to copy this from somewhere, rather than typing it in (being lazy, I know). I tried to see if I could copy from a "Get Info" window, but no luck.

I know I can drag the file onto a Terminal window and copy from there, but it escapes all spaces in the path name, so it's not a perfect solution. Any other ideas?

[gorickey]

I remember seeing an Applescript that does this very thing; however, I'll need to find it...

[Developer]

Select the file in the Finder then do

Finder->Services->Mail->Send selection

[gorickey]

Originally posted by Developer:
Select the file in the Finder then do

Finder->Services->Mail->Send selection

That's nifty indeed...however, I wish it would just copy it to the Clipboard and then I could paste it anywhere instead of opening a new Mail.app message...

[Chuckit]

It's quite easy with AppleScript.

Code:
on open theFile
	set the clipboard to POSIX path of theFile as string
end open

Save that as an application and it will copy the path of any file you drag onto it.

[gorickey]

Thanks Chuckit...

[Basilisk]

Also try the CopyPath context menu plugin:

http://www.bergenstreetsoftware.com/

Quick and convenient.

Alex

[Macola]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
It's quite easy with AppleScript.

Code:
on open theFile
	set the clipboard to POSIX path of theFile as string
end open

Save that as an application and it will copy the path of any file you drag onto it.

Thanks...that will do nicely!

[JNI]

OnMyCommand also has a contextual menu item that will copy the full path of items selected in the Finder into the Clipboard.

OMC is a great utility if you haven't tried it. It allows you to add hierarchical contextual menu items that can act on selected text in any application, or files or folders in the Finder, and then trigger shell scripts (and therefore indirectly AppleScripts using the osascript command, perl scripts or whatever can be done from the command line). It supports context sensitivity that e.g. will only activate for folders, files with specific extensions or always active, and does some UI too like dialogs with customizable popup menus, arbitrary text input, Open/SaveAs dialogs, error reporting etc.

I find OMC to be easier to use for acting on selections and such because you don't have to move the mouse up to the Script or Services Menu to trigger the action.

[Mithras]

Second vote for OnMyCommand.

I have two path-related contextual items that I added from OMC. One copies the full local path to a file or folder. The other automatically translates a path into the equivalent URL on my website (for files within the web folder). OMC is wonderful, functionality like it should be built in to OS X in my opinion...