Inside Macintosh: AppleScript Finder Guide /

Chapter 3 - Finder Commands / Command Definitions

Select

The Select command is a request to select one or more objects. If you specify objects in several containers, only the objects in the last specified container
will remain selected. The container must be open for the specified object to
be selected.

SYNTAX

select referenceToObject

PARAMETER

referenceToObject

A reference to the object or objects to be selected.
Class: Reference or list of references

RESULT

Reference to the selected object or a list of references.

EXAMPLE

This script selects two files in a single folder:

tell application "Finder"   select {file "To Tom" in folder "Letters" of startup disk, ¬
      file "To Lorraine" in folder "Letters" of startup disk}
end tell

The folder must be open for the script to work correctly.