reveal file in finder support multi files

[Alan He]

 

when reveal in finder, only first file selected even though multi file selected by file action.

 

[vitor]

That’s the way macOS does it. Try it in a Terminal:

 

open -R /some/path /another/path

 

open -R means Reveals the file(s) in the Finder instead of opening them. (see man -P 'less --pattern "^     -R"' open).

As you’ll see, even if you give multiple paths, it will only reveal one.

[Alan He]

1 hour ago, vitor said:

That’s the way macOS does it. Try it in a Terminal:

 

open -R /some/path /another/path

 

open -R means Reveals the file(s) in the Finder instead of opening them. (see man -P 'less --pattern "^     -R"' open).

As you’ll see, even if you give multiple paths, it will only reveal one.

 

 

If so, I will consider whether there is a way by AppleScript.

 

[vitor]

3 hours ago, Alan He said:

If so, I will consider whether there is a way by AppleScript.

 

There is, just looked into it:

 

Application("Finder").select( [ Path("/ONE/PATH/HERE"), Path("/ANOTHER_PATH/HERE") ] )

 

[vitor]

Spent more time with it, and JXA suffers from a bug (I had encountered it before in the context of deleting) where one can only act on one file, multiple files, or one directory. If there is a directory in the list and one other path, it breaks. But regular AppleScript can do it:

 

on run argv
  set pathList to {}

  repeat with pathString in argv
    copy ((POSIX file pathString) as alias) to the end of the pathList
  end repeat

  tell application "Finder" to select pathList
end run

 

[Alan He]

8 hours ago, vitor said:

Spent more time with it, and JXA suffers from a bug (I had encountered it before in the context of deleting) where one can only act on one file, multiple files, or one directory. If there is a directory in the list and one other path, it breaks. But regular AppleScript can do it:

 

on run argv
  set pathList to {}

  repeat with pathString in argv
    copy ((POSIX file pathString) as alias) to the end of the pathList
  end repeat

  tell application "Finder" to select pathList
end run

 

 

 

thank you.

 

I found method to support diff directory. 

 

 

just like this.

 

 

https://gist.github.com/alanhg/b6ac5adfb4c029fe44d933f998b9fbaa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2021 by Alan He

[vitor]

I have no idea why you have such a complicated setup. The code above works fine for multiple files and directories and has no issue with unicode characters.