Quick and dirty sh script to copy a file's location to clipboard, so you can paste it into an scp command. OS X only

coordinates.sh

#!/bin/sh

#Usage: coordinates.sh foo.txt

# realpath function from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3572030/bash-script-absolute-path-with-osx

USER=`whoami`
IP=`ifconfig en0 inet | grep "inet" | awk -F\  '{print $2}'`

realpath() {
    [[ $1 = /* ]] && echo "$1" || echo "$PWD/${1#./}"
}

PATH=$(realpath "$1")

COORDS="${USER}@${IP}:${PATH}"
printf "${COORDS}" | /usr/bin/pbcopy
echo "Copied scp coordinates [${COORDS}] to clipboard"
exit