Trying to find and replace text in clipboard

Here:

set the_offset to offset of "Volumes" in sel

repeat until the_offset is 0

set sel to items 1 thru (the_offset - 1) of sel & "MyServer" & items (the_offset + 7) thru -1 of sel as string

set the_offset to offset of "Volumes" in sel

end repeat

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Put that code just before the 'set the clipboard' line.

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Another option using the 'sed' command of 'find & replace'…

set str to "/Volumes/file/path"

do shell script "echo " & str & " | sed 's|/Volumes/|afp://|'"

outputs -->

"afp://file/path"

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http://marklets.com/De-indent.aspx

It's a bookmarklet to remove the negative indent when pasting from Applescript editor.

I forgot to insert the 'myserver' text 🙂

I have added a try block to catch the error when Finder has nothing selected, but it files with multiple items selected too! It will need to repeat for each selected item.

tell application "Finder"

try

set sel to the POSIX path of (selection as text)

set res to do shell script "echo " & sel & " | sed 's|/Volumes/|afp://myserver/|''"

set the clipboard tores

get the clipboard

on error

display dialog "Nothing selected, curling up & dying." buttons "OK" default button 1

end try

end tell

Another way.

With "Volumes" already in the clipboard:

do shell script "pbpaste | sed 's/Volumes/MyServer/g' | pbcopy"