Having come from windows, I was looking everywhere for this!

Fortunately, some dude called Illari Scheinin wrote a couple of apple scripts that do the job. A link to his website and these scripts is here

He points out some apps you can use to run these scripts, they may be good or not, I don’t know because I use the excellent Quicksilver. If you don’t know about quicksilver, well go download it!

I’ll blog about it more in the future, but needless to say you can store both of these scripts in a suitable folder somewhere, which quicksilver is scanning. I have a folder specifically for apple scripts which I’ve set quicksilver to scan. It’s simply a case of dump these 2 script files in that folder, make sure quicksilver is scanning it, then set up a trigger for cut files.scpt (I did it with CTRL + APPL + X) and one for paste files.scpt (I chose CTRL + APPL + V). You can now select one or more files/folders in finder, and use cut and paste!

HOORAY! and thanks Illari!