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POSIX path or POSIX file

POSIX path or POSIX file

set f to choose file — f is a file object

set p to POSIX path of f — p is Unicode text of the path

set f1 to POSIX file p — f1 is a file object again

set qp to quoted form of p — qp is a path string you can send to Terminal even if it contains spaces or special characters