From: Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:11:12 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I get full filenames from Git difftool (for Microsoft Word “Compare Documents” feature)?
Message-ID: <20091214131112.GC22735@unpythonic.net>
In-Reply-To: <b507cb050912132225j1bdc39c2v42a3bf6bddf1cb1a@mail.gmail.com>

In the bash shell, you can convert a relative path to absolute by prepending
the directory name:
    mkabs () {
        case "$1" in
        /*) echo "$1" ;;
        *)  echo "$(pwd)/$1" ;;
        esac
    }

Using it at the shell prompt:
    $ mkabs example
    /home/jepler/example
    $ ls -l $(mkabs example)
    -rw-r--r-- 1 jepler jepler 0 2009-12-14 07:08 /home/jepler/example

If mac has a gnu-like readlink(1), then use 'readlink -f' instead of the
mkabs shell function:
    $ readlink -f example
    /home/jepler/example

You should be able to write a shell script which does the conversion
from relative to absolute using one of these patterns, and then invokes
the applescript.

It may turn out that there's a way to convert a path from relative to
absolute in applescript as well, but I wouldn't know it.

Jeff