MacOS – Ejecting all network drives via Applescript/Automator/Shell

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I use the following script to attempt to eject all disks that aren't internal:

tell application "Finder"
    eject (disks whose ejectable is true)
end tell

This has the advantage of skipping volumes like MobileBackups as well as several others.

Unfortunately, it doesn't eject network shares.

Is there any way to get connected network shares in applescript?

As a +1, ideally this would skip things like optical disks as well.

EDIT: Both answers so far have shared ways to eject specific network disks. This, of course, is easy and I know how to do it. What I'm specifically asking for is a way to attempt to eject every disk other than system internal disks, regardless of their name.

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I use Automator. I inserted 'Get Specified Finder Items', and named the target disks that I wanted to 'Get'. Only those named get chosen, but network drives do work. I then pipe this to 'Eject Disk'.

That's it.

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MacOS – Automator or AppleScript Rename Workflow

Here's a script:

set thefolder to "path:to:folder" as alias
tell application "Finder"
    set filename to name of first item of folder thefolder
    set oldDels to AppleScript's text item delimiters as string
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "." as string
    set itemname to first text item of filename
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDels as string
    set name of thefolder to itemname
end tell

It gets the name of the first item in the folder, clips off the extension, and renames the folder.

Note that it doesn't convert to uppercase as in your example. This is less than trivial with AppleScript, but let me know if it's real important and I can give you the code.

Automator to run AppleScript for a shell script

You'll need to get the POSIX path of the input file:

on run {input, parameters}
    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script "/Users/myaccountname/Applications/TeXcount_3_0/texcount.pl \"" & ( POSIX path of input as string) & "\""
    end tell
end run

I found the answer over at StackOverflow.

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