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How to execute a shell script with selected files/folders in finder?

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Mar 15, 202625383 views
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I'm coming from Linux where it's easy to run a script against a set of files in nautilus or dolphin, but I was kind of surprised to see that this isn't easy in OSX. Preferably, I would love to be able to ctrl-click on some selection in finder, choose my script, and have a terminal window pop up to …

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Fix for: How to execute a shell script with selected files/folders in finder?

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The easiest, built-in way to do this is to just drag the items from Finder to a Terminal window. When you drop them, Terminal will “type” their (escaped) pathnames. You can then use your shell's command line editing to enter the rest of the command.…

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