I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to do.

I'm guessing you're just trying to get the "full path" of a file.

This gets tricky because it's not stored any particular place. I recommend using find.

For example.
If you know it's going to be on an attached volume (but you don't want to search your entire HD) you could do this.
sudo find /Volumes ! -path "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" -name Presentation1.pptx

If you're wanting to find it in all locations, I'd recommend assigning it to a variable and reading the variable accordingly.

fileLoc=$(sudo find / -name Presentation1.pptx)
echo "$fileLoc"

Find is kind of tricky to get the hang of, some times.
This might help.
http://www.theunixschool.com/2012/07/find-command-15-examples-to-exclude.html

@tthurman, I'm trying to get the full server path of a file.

Example: I want the full path of a file the lies on smb://server.domain.com/share/path/to/any/MountPoint/HereLiesMyFile.doc

When I do a "basename HereLiesMyFile.doc" in Terminal, I will get back the POSIX path, e.g. /Volumes/Mountpoint/HereLiesMyFile.doc

But this is not what I want to achieve.

I want the full UNC path where the file is located on the network share, the same UNC path that is displayed in the Finder info window in "Server".

The only thing I can really find is using df to get the FileSystem.

You could use sed and awk to move stuff around accordingly.

What I did:

fileLoc=$(find /Volumes ! -path '/Volumes/Macintosh HD' -name Presentation1.pptx)
fileSys=$(df $fileLoc | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/.*@//g')

That should get the mounted filesystem. Unfortunately, you won't get the type of mount. (smb or afp). Just an idea to help progress.

Hope I could help.

Regards,
TJ

I was on this point using

df

mount

I have made this Automator service to do it for our users.

Its basically a Bash script that relies on the mount command.

Maybe not the pretties solution but it gets the work done.

#!/bin/bash

_FILE_="$1"

getVolume() {
_VOLUME_=$(echo "$_FILE_" | cut -f1,2,3 -d'/')

}

getProtocol() {
_SHAREINFO_=$(mount | grep "$_VOLUME_")
if [[ $_SHAREINFO_ == *"smbfs"* ]]; then
    _PROTOCOL_="SMB"
elif [[ $_SHAREINFO_ == *"afpfs"* ]]; then
    _PROTOCOL_="AFP"
else
    echo "$_FILE_"
    exit 0
fi

}

cutNPaste() {
_SHARE_=$(mount | grep "$_VOLUME_" | cut -d@ -f2- | awk '{ print $1 }')

_PATH_=$(echo "$_FILE_" | sed -- "s|$_VOLUME_||g")

_FULLPATH_="$_SHARE_""$_PATH_"

}

addProtocol() {
if [[ $_PROTOCOL_ == "SMB" ]]; then
    echo "smb://$_FULLPATH_"
else
    echo "afp://$_FULLPATH_"
fi

}


getVolume
getProtocol
cutNPaste
addProtocol

exit $?

Hope it helps.

One thing to note. It only works on local files and AFP and SMB shares. I've never had to set it up to work on FTP. And I don't have access to a NFS share.

This bash script looks promising. Any advice on how to account for/replace spaces in the FULLPATH with "%20" so there's hope for a clickable hyperlink?

@ndelacretaz

#!/bin/bash
url="http://contoso.com/here you go"
url="${url/ /%20}"
echo "$url"

Thanks, Ryan! However, when I drop that in, it replaces/subs %20 for just the first space that occurs. So when I paste, I get: smb://my.domain.net/Distribution/Internal/Ebook,%20Consignment, and POD reports/2018/08.18/UK Aug 2018.xlsx

@ndelacretaz This will do it.

#!/bin/bash
url="http://contoso.com/here you go"
url="${url// /%20}"
echo "$url"

@ryan.ball Excellent! Thanks so much! Cheers...