Pass multiple files in Finder Selection "At Once" to shellscript

[peternlewis]

I've posted a demonstration of how to do this in the Macro Library category:

Run Single Command on Finder Selection

Here is a macro that will let you process the Finder Selection and then run a single shell command applying to all the selected files. It gathers the Finder Selection together into a newline-delimited variable (Paths), and then feeds that variable to the shell script as STDIN. Then it uses a trick from Mac OS X Hints to convert the line endings into null (\0) characters, and then pass them to xargs to build the command line. The command currently is just ls -l, but it could be anything, and s…