How can I read the filename from a script?

[bobbykjack]

I currently have a script that stuffs its input into HTML and sends that to the browser using data:text/html. This works OK, but I have some markdown files under a local web server's docroot that I'd like to serve directly. So I'm trying to get the path of the specific file when running a script.

I've looked in both the ENV and $@ but neither contains the file path. Is there another way to get this data?

[1024jp]

CotEditor passes the document file path as an argument when the CotEditor script is an UNIX script (= not an AppleScript), and the document is already saved somewhere so that is has a file path.

In case, I’ve also quickly tested it in the latest environment (macOS 15.3 and CotEditor 5.0.8) and confirmed that it still works.

Example in Python

import sys

filepath = sys.argv[1]
print(filepath, file=sys.stderr)