Converting a shell path to mac path

Question

Anyone have an idea on how to turn a shell path to a mac path without using AppleScript via osasscript?
That was my first idea, but it was dreadfully slow.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This version preserevs any ':' characters by temporarily substituting it with a null byte then swapping any nulls to '/':
<pre style="overflow: auto;font-size:small; font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: #222; background: #ddd; font-size: 9px;">#!/bin/sh
sed -ne "
# First preserve : characters by swapping with null.
s/:/\0/g
# swap / with :
s/\//:/g
# change original : (now null) into /
s/\0/\//g
# If pattern space does not begin with :Volumes,
# then prepend mac harddrive name and print.
/^:Volumes/ ! s/^/`ls -F /Volumes | sed -ne 's/@$//p'`/p
# But if pattern space _does_ begin with :Volumes:, just delete and print.
s/^:Volumes://p
</pre>
Cole