File path from find command and using POSIX

Hi,
I have a find command in do shell script returning output files of the form ./xyz/abc/.../...
instead of the full path.
I am guessing that this is the problem when I use POSIX path of one of those files. Can Applescript understand the "./" or does it need a full Unix path to convert it back?
In that case, how do I ask find command to return the full path?
Thanks in advance!

>I am guessing that this is the problem when I use POSIX path of one of those files. Can Applescript understand the "./" or does it need a full Unix path to convert it back?
You're right - AppleScript won't be able to use those paths because AppleScript has no idea of the current directory used by the shell.
The problem is that you're defining '.' a the start point of your search.
For each matching file find will print this start point in front of the relative path, assuming that you know where you're starting from. So the solution is to provide that path as the search start point rather than .
For example, if your current script says:
<pre class=command>cd /some/directory
find . -name "*.mp3"</pre>
You could/should rewrite this as:
<pre class=command>find /some/directory -name "*.mp3"</pre>
in the second case all matches would include the full path including the /some/directory part.
If you can't predict what your search directory will be you can write your find like this:
<pre class=command>find `pwd` -name "*.mp3"</pre>
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