My Top 3 Finder Toolbar Scripts

With Leopard’s Finder, you can not only add applications to the toolbar, but also scripts. That’s an extremely useful feature I use every day and so I put together an introduction to my favorite three.

But let’s first talk about the installation. That’s pretty easy. Just extract the downloaded archive, copy the script to an arbitrary location and then drag it to Finder’s toolbar. That’s all. Now let the fun begin.

Open in Textmate

Textmate is my favorite text editor. I use it a lot and so the Open in Textmate script comes in handy. It allows you to open the selected file directly in Textmate or if none is selected, open the whole directory for tabbed browsing.

Enhanced Open in Terminal Here

This script opens a Terminal window and changes to the directory shown in Finder. Very useful, but because it’s enhanced, it can do even more. Holding the Command-Key while clicking on the button opens a new tab instead of a new Terminal window. The Option-Key tries to recylcle an already running Terminal session and just changes to the directory. However, if this fails because the session is busy executing a program, a new window is created instead.

LSelect

Last but not least: LSelect. This script opens a dialog box where you can enter a globbing pattern like “*.jpg” and hitting enter selects all files with extension JPG. I think, you got the idea. It’s extremely useful for moving or deleting multiple files.

These were my top 3 Finder toolbar scripts making my daily work so much easier. If you happen to know scripts worth mentioning, then please leave a comment.