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Get the path of the frontmost Finder window. If it is within the user’s folder, replace the `/Users/USERNAME/` with `~/` so that the path can be shared with others.
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get_frontmost_finder_path.applescript
tell application "Finder"
tell application "System Events" to set current_user to name of current user
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/Users/" & current_user
try
return "~" & text item 2 of POSIX path of (target of front Finder window as text)
on error
return POSIX path of (target of front Finder window as text)
end try
end tell
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