[OT] More Terminal/Finder cooperation

[Ken Williams]

Hi,

The osascript example in a recent thread gave me an idea - I'd like a 
shell command that would tell the Finder to reveal the item with a 
certain path, something like this:

  % osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to reveal file 
"/Users/ken/Perl.tar"'

This would be useful (if it worked) for initiating drag-n-drop 
operations, getting finder info, looking at the preview icon, etc.

I've tried several variations on the above theme, but none of them 
work.  My Applescript-Fu is not strong.  For instance, the above gives 
me the error:

 execution error: Finder got an error: Can't get file 
"/Users/ken/Perl.tar". (-1728)

If I dig around in the applescript dictionary for the Finder, I find a 
'name' property, but that doesn't seem to get me much farther:

  % osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to reveal file name 
"/Users/ken/Perl.tar"'
  syntax error: Invalid key form. (-10002)

Anyone?

 -Ken