Applescript to Copy from Clipboard to Terminal

I need to figure out how to write a line in an applescript that will take what's on the clipboard (will be a file path) and paste it into the Terminal after the "cd" command. Then it will list out all of the files in that file path and save it as a txt file.

Right now, it looks a little something like this and I get the error is "Cant get keystroke "cd" of application "Terminal"

on open {dropped_item}

tell application "Finder" to set the clipboard to the dropped_item as text

tell application "Terminal" to keystroke "cd"

tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using {command down}

do shell script "ls */* | cat>>~/Desktop/filelist.txt"

end open

OR If I use this script, I get this error: "AppleEvent handler failed"

on open {dropped_item}

tell application "Finder" to set the clipboard to the dropped_item as text

open application "Terminal"

do shell script "cd" and pastefromclipboard

do shell script "ls */* | cat>>~/Desktop/filelist.txt"

end open

I also remember seeing something to the effect of "Can't make 'cd' into boolean" but I cannot find that version of my script at the moment.

Any help with this would be great. Thanks!

So what you're trying to do is output the contents of a folder dropped onto the application? If so, here's an approach that will work:
This code only has one greater than symbol; use two if you want the file to continue to grow rather than being replaced.

Hope that helps.

Thanks nabl! Yes, I am trying to get a list of all of the files and folders within the folder dropped onto the application.

This worked perfectly to grab the top level of the folders within the folder I wanted it to list. So now, my issue is getting it to list everything within those initial folders...

I tried using this:


But am getting error messages that read:
ls: broadcasthost: Operation timed out
ls: localhost: Operation timed out
ls: agentx: Permission denied
ls: backups: Permission denied
ls: root: Permission denied

The command line "ls */* | cat>>~/Desktop/filelist.txt" works fine in the shell every time and gets me what I want, so I'm not quite sure what those errors are relating to.

Is there another way to generate all of the file within the subfolders of the dropped folder?

Thanks again so much, this is big help so far!

Try this:
The -p switch adds a slash at the end of results that are folders (for example, "folder/" instead of "folder"), and the -R switch tell ls to recursively output the contents of each folder it comes across. For more options, type man ls at the command line.