Working with Paths

Normally, it's a fairly simple to convert a mac path to a unix path.

Replace Mac colon delimiters with slashes and slashes with colons.

If not a boot volume path, prepend with '/Volumes/'... '/Volumes/NonBootDisk/some folder

Else, delete the volume name from the path leaving a leading '/'.... '/some folder'

Trouble arises if a volume is mounted that has the same file system name as a currently mounted volume.

Such volumes will include a trailing hypen and digit... 'Zip_100 Zip_100-1, Zip_100-2', and may persist across remounts (though it really shouldn't).

Getting Unix Volume Names

Unix to Mac Volume Name

Path Conversions

Directory & File Lists