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Returns the paths of the selected Finder items quoted with a space between them. I use this with Keyboard Maestro to type the paths into the Terminal when I type ]finder there.
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Get Finder Selection Paths
tell application "Finder" to set theSel to selection as alias list
set pathList to {}
repeat with anItem in theSel
set the end of pathList to quoted form of (POSIX path of (anItem as alias))
end repeat
set savedDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set myoutput to pathList as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to savedDelimiters
return myoutput
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ff6347 commented Feb 24, 2013

This is pretty cool. Thanks

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