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copied!<p>I'm currently trying to make an AppleScript which should recognize the selected file in Finder and do the relative command in Terminal.</p> <p>Everything was going fine since I reached the part where it should define the language of the selected file: it just doesn't check the ifs. I checked if it writes fileExtension correctly (via return) and it does.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <pre><code>--> Useful variables set fileCheck to false set languageCheck to false set selectionCheck to false set fileExtension to "" set myCommand to "" --> Get selected file tell application "Finder" if selection is {} then tell application "Terminal" activate end tell else set finderSelection to selection as alias list set selectionCheck to true end if end tell --> Get file POSIX path if selectionCheck is true then set filePath to quoted form of POSIX path of finderSelection end if --> Get file extensions if filePath contains "." then set fileCheck to true set fileExtension to text ((offset of "." in filePath) + 1) thru -1 of filePath end if --> Check language -- No Extension if fileCheck is false then display dialog "warning: the file you selected has no extension" buttons ("Ok") default button 1 -- Text else if fileExtension is "txt" then set myCommand to "open" set languageCheck to true -- Perl else if fileExtension = "pl" then set myCommand to "perl" set languageCheck to true -- Ruby else if fileExtension is "rb" then set myCommand to "ruby" set languageCheck to true -- Python else if fileExtension is "py" then set myCommand to "python" set languageCheck to true -- AppleScript else if fileExtension is "scpt" then set myCommand to "osascript" set languageCheck to true else display dialog "warning: the extension is not supported" buttons ("Ok") default button 1 end if --> Terminal time! if fileCheck is true and languageCheck is true then do shell script "" & myCommand & " " & filePath end if </code></pre>

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