action or a script to move the selection to the specified layer?

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var scale = 50; // 50 means 50%, change this to your needs

var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var ilayer = idoc.layers['Layer 2'];
var sel = idoc.selection;
var selen = sel.length;

for (i=0; i 
         
 
         
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Please provide any idea if someone tried it.


Thank you
RPS			 
Hi rps.
Your interaction-spec className seems to be incorrect (FileReadInteractionSpec).
    
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Please try with the specifications of interaction above and let me know the results.
Kind regards
Neeraj Sehgal