automator Questions

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Is there a possibility to play a Quicktime movie (.mov) file from the command line (i.e., Terminal)? I haven't found a way to achieve this. I could do it with an Automator script but it woul...
Petronille asked 11/9, 2012 at 11:21

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I wanted to find a way how to disable/enable hot corners via keyboard shortcut. I found this apple script property theSavedValues : {"Mission Control", "Desktop", "Dashboard", "Launchpad"} -- fo...
Trousers asked 17/7, 2016 at 10:52

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In OS X 10.9.5 I wrote a Shell Script (via vim). Save it and navigate to this script and sh code.shit runs perfect (in iTerm & Total Terminal). The same command in the same directory produce...
Mutant asked 6/8, 2014 at 12:59

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Is it possible to pass an Automator variable into a shell script?
Carrasco asked 11/1, 2011 at 23:48

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I can't manage to find how to use the selected text as a variable for AppleScript and Automator. Any ideas?
Edraedrea asked 11/5, 2016 at 8:49

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Mac OS has a very basic set of parental control options that allow you to limit user's access to websites and apps, as well a set daily time limits. I want to be able to script this to do something...
Lydalyddite asked 1/5, 2013 at 14:37

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I am trying to use automomator to control my UI and Google Chrome, but after recording my actions (watch me do) and then replaying them, I get the error "application chrome is not running when it i...
Clo asked 8/7, 2015 at 19:22

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What I want to do is run an automator script. Where what happens is it opens terminal with two tabs and each tab and ssh onto [email protected] and root@[email protected]; how would you d...
Portis asked 13/11, 2015 at 9:44

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I'm new to AppleScript, but I am trying to create a script that will go through all PDFs in a folder extracting the pages into separate files. My plan is to use a combination of Automator and Apple...
Vance asked 4/9, 2013 at 18:17

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I've been searching for about an hour now to try and find a way to do this. Is there any way in Automator to resize images to a specified width and height, instead of just the longest size? I need...
Fiduciary asked 7/2, 2013 at 17:14

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I'd like to automate that whenever a process is using more than 50% CPU it sends a notification to my Notification Center I'm using terminal-notifier for sending trough notifications but I'm a bi...
Buckhound asked 9/6, 2014 at 22:13

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I´m trying to create a keyshortcut to open terminal in current folder. Looking around, I found this code to create a service (the part of adding the shortcut to this service is solved), only added ...
Sarsen asked 31/5, 2014 at 23:2

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I'm in the Interface Builder of Xcode, creating an Cocoa-Applescript custom Automator Action. I have a Button and a ComboBox menu in the interface. I'd like to fill the content values of the ComboB...
Coastwise asked 20/5, 2014 at 4:51

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I have an Automator workflow to ping a server, and download the latest copy of a schedule that I frequently use. This schedule then is copied to my dropbox so I can view it on my phone. Before the ...
Amateur asked 5/11, 2012 at 1:7

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I have a python script I want to be able to drag-drop files on to. So I've wrapped it in an Automator Application. Said Application has a single Run Shell Script with contents that look something l...
Moses asked 20/3, 2014 at 0:18

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So I have a an Applescript that displays a dialogue box and then automator sets a variable as the entry Example . . . the input "AAAAAAA" the query variable would be "AAAAAAA" i'm trying to fig...
Archaeozoic asked 27/1, 2014 at 21:18

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I want to create an apple script that opens terminal and summons this command : sudo killall coreaudiod How is this possible?
Bogan asked 30/9, 2013 at 18:46

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I'm attempting to make an open in Sublime Text 2 service via Automator. I am doing this by: Running Automator Adding a new service Adding "Run Shell Script" Setting Shell to /bin/zsh Entering a...
Equate asked 14/1, 2013 at 19:16

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I'm a newbie to Mac OS and learning with Automator, I found it useful but not quite controllable. I made a shortcut in services but I don't know how to delete it. The item highlighted is what I ...
Christmastide asked 23/6, 2013 at 4:26

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Is there an easy way to use Automator on OS X to replace spaces in filenames with underscores?
Balky asked 2/11, 2009 at 18:56

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I wrote an Service using Apple's Automator. The first action is an "Ask for Text" action. However, when I trigger the shortcut to initiate the service, the modal asking for text pops up, but it doe...
Meander asked 30/8, 2012 at 17:11

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so I'm trying to create a service that will be located in the contextual menu of the Finder and that would allow to create a new document in the current directory. I've been doing that using Autom...
Paralyse asked 29/8, 2012 at 18:8

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I'm tempted by Automator.app's ability to create contextual services in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I would like to create some keyboard accessible shortcuts to manipulate text snippets by calling a she...
Disestablish asked 9/9, 2009 at 9:40

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I want to add an option to the finder context menu that calls hg add %1 with %1 being the full path of the selected file in finder. Of course there are more useful cases I can think of, to add to t...
Palmate asked 18/11, 2010 at 13:35

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I have an automator script that I'd like to run on a folder. I want the script to take each file in the folder and run my shell command on it. Automator is set to pass input to stdin, but I don't t...
Hustings asked 6/12, 2009 at 23:41

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