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Execute "Get Info" on a file from command line in Mac OS X
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Mar 15, 20269017 viewsConfidence Score0%
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How would you get the "Get Info" window to appear from command line as you would if you were in Finder and hit Command-I? I could write it in applescript... but I stay away if I can.
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Fix for: Execute "Get Info" on a file from command line in Mac OS X
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This also supports multiple files and make Finder active. The utxt method is only needed in 10.4 and earlier. STDOUT is redirected because osascript prints the result of the last expression and STDERR because 10.8 shows a warning like CFURLGetFSRef …
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