使用 applescript 将多个 POSIX 文件复制到剪贴板

Question

I'm trying to copy multiple files to the clipboard in macos like this:

./file2clip.applescript /User/Cool/Dekstop/test.txt /User/Cool/Dekstop/myfolder

I already can do this with only one file:

#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run args
    set the clipboard to POSIX file (first item of args)
end

But it only works on one file...

I have tried this

on run args
    set the clipboard to POSIX files args
end

But It didn't work.

And also this

on run args
    set pathList to {}
    repeat with arg in args
        set end of pathList to POSIX file arg
    end repeat
    set the clipboard to pathList
end

But this also didn't work

Adding all the POSIX files to a string also doesn't work because the clipboard will have only text inside it so I can't paste all the files with ctrl + v , I could only paste their names. Not what I want to achieve.

property files: ""

on run args
    repeat with f in args
        set files to files & POSIX file f & "\n"
    end repeat
    set the clipboard to files
end

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In your original snippets, setting the clipboard to the first argument item works because it is text. Setting the clipboard to a list appears to fail because it is a list - the data is there, it just doesn't work the same as text ( clipboard info can be used to get information about items on the clipboard).

From the command line, arguments (quoted and/or escaped as needed) should already be passed on to the script as a list of POSIX paths, but coercions and/or manipulations such as tilde expansion can also be performed as needed. The individual items can be placed onto the clipboard however you want using regular text operations - for example, to separate the arguments with returns, you can just do something like:

on run args
    set pathString to ""
    repeat with arg in args
        set pathString to pathString & arg & return
    end repeat
    set the clipboard to pathString
end run