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How to create an alias from the command line

Hi
I would like to know how to create an alias (for a file, not a command) from the command line. I don't want to use the ln command, as an alias has more interesting features than soft/hard links... Is there an Apple specific tool to do this?

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-Jerome

Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jul 13, 2007 7:26 AM

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Posted on Jul 13, 2007 8:59 AM

The only straightforward way that I am aware of for creating a "Finder" alias from the command line is using AppleScript via ' osascript'. Of course, it's not really a command line solution since the "Finder" has to be running. Anyway, something along the lines of:
<pre style="overflow:auto; padding: 5px; width: 500px ; font-size: 10px; border:1">osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to make alias file to POSIX file "/full/path/to/file" at POSIX file "/full/path/to/folder"'</pre>
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Jul 13, 2007 8:59 AM in response to jeromedroz

The only straightforward way that I am aware of for creating a "Finder" alias from the command line is using AppleScript via ' osascript'. Of course, it's not really a command line solution since the "Finder" has to be running. Anyway, something along the lines of:
<pre style="overflow:auto; padding: 5px; width: 500px ; font-size: 10px; border:1">osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to make alias file to POSIX file "/full/path/to/file" at POSIX file "/full/path/to/folder"'</pre>
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