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		mmmm2 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time `trash` is good to know, thanks! I'd been doing: "tell app \"Finder\" to move {%s} to trash" where %s is a comma separated list of "the POSIX file <path-to-file>".

gcanyon 6 days ago [–]

Oooh, I just suggested in another comment that using applescript would be possible. I didn't think it would be this easy though.

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