From: Phillip Hutchings <sitharus@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T11:28:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [MacOS X] finding the orig file of an alias

On 8/3/06, Une b辿vue <pere.noel@laponie.com.invalid> wrote:>> for the time being i'm using the finder thru AppleScript and then aeosa> in order to find the original path of an alias.>> that's time consuming ))>> does exist a direct rubyish way to do that (as in perl for ex.) ?
An alias or a symlink? Symlinks should be easy, but aliases are harder.
For an alias you'll need to hook in to Core Foundation, check out thisADC article:http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/LowLevelFileMgmt/Tasks/ResolvingAliases.html
-- Phillip Hutchingshttp://www.sitharus.com/