How to find the file address location for a file found in Spotlight

Spotlight generally only searches at the beginning of words. It can find barebones because it is right after a period, or textwrangler for the same reason, but not wrangler. (It also understands underscores, hyphens, and CamelCase as marking the beginning of words.)

To work around this, instead of doing a straight up spotlight search do a search in Finder (with cmd+F or cmd+option+space). Leave the search box blank, and click the plus button next to where it says "Save." Then make your query "Name" - "contains" -"wrangler" and you are good.

You also need to be careful because I think the file you are searching for is considered a system file. If you are searching within the Preferences folder you will get the right result, but if you are just searching within the home folder or on the entire hard drive, the system file won't show up, unless you push the plus button again and add to your search query "System files" - "are included." Since "System files" isn't in the dropdown box by default, you will probably need to click "Other..." and then find it. You will have the option of adding it permanently to the dropdown box.

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Would something like this work for you:

on run argv
    set theFile to (item 1 of argv)
    set theFilePath to quoted form of POSIX path of theFile 
    -- your script using the parameters follows
end run

You could skip the first line and just pull off the path if you don't need to use the file itself later in the script.

Also, you'll really want to get ASObjC Runner to parse files and paths easily for 10.9 and older or BridgePlus for newer os.