MacOS 终端：是否可以通过脚本创建“拖放”操作？

Question

There are many posts that explain how to drag-and-drop things into an open Terminal window. But what I would like to do is to tell Terminal to drag-and-drop a previously selected directory onto another application like VSCode or Renamer. I have not found any documentation for that. Is it at all possible? And if so, would somebody please point me to a documentation?

UPDATE: I'd like to clarify my question with what I intend to do:

Pre requisites:

• a "work folder" contains folders and files that shall be renamed
• the renaming is done by an application called "A better finder renamer" (which allows presets)

An "Automator" (MacOS app) action shall imitate these steps:

• the "work folder" is right clicked
• the folder is drag-and-dropped onto the ABFR, which initiates the currently active preset
• other actions via bash (like 'mv./ / .*./')...

It is the "drag-and-drop" part of the Automator action that presents a riddle for me.

Answer 1

The "drag-and-drop" operation is manual operation. In AppleScript, instead the command to open the file or folder is given to the destination application itself.

Second thing to keep in mind. Getting Terminal's current working directory is easy with its do script "pwd" command. But the result of the do script Terminal command returned to the script is always the window tab, not the result of the pwd shell command. One solution is to redirect (remember) the result of pwd in a temporary text file.

set tempFolder to (path to temporary items folder from user domain)
set temp to POSIX path of tempFolder & "workingDirectory.txt"

tell application "Terminal" to do script ("pwd > " & temp) in selected tab of window 1

set curDirPosixPath to paragraph 1 of (read file ((tempFolder as text) & "workingDirectory.txt"))
set curDirHFSPath to curDirPosixPath as POSIX file as Unicode text

tell application "Visual Studio Code" to open curDirHFSPath

. NOTE: other possible solution (I don't like) is parsing the text contents of Terminal window after pwd command execution. You can get contents using property contents (of selected tab of front window).

Answer 2

Open Automator, choose create New Document. Choose create new Quick Action (service). Set workflow receives current folders in any application . From library Add Run AppleScript action. Edit it contents:

on run {input, parameters}
    set curDirHFSPath to (item 1 of input) as text
    tell application "Visual Studio Code" to open curDirHFSPath
end run

Save this Quick Action as service . Now when right-clicking the folder, opens the context menu, where you can choose and run this service.