Automator find and replace text string
Automator find and replace text string
- Subject: Automator find and replace text string
- From: Alastair Leith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 19:41:17 +0800
Is there a basic find and replace text function in Automator? I can only find
one for file name strings to use in the Finder (And I don’t want to change any
file names, just copy their paths and display in a modified way.
Background
I often create file path strings for email messages to my team by drawing a
file from Finder into terminal and then that resulting text into the Mail body
text and Subject line.
E.g.
/Users/aleith/pCloud\ Drive/Screenshots/reseeding\ coral\ on\ GBR.jpg
Then to be kind to non-techies I often replace all escaped characters will just
the character and directory symbols “ ➤ “ with and arrow “➤” or something.
➤ Users ➤ aleith ➤ pCloud Drive ➤ Screenshots ➤ reseeding coral on GBR.jpg
Apart from fact that Find and Replace in Mail is buggy as hell (only thing that
works properly is ‘Replace All', which sometimes is the last thing I want to do
as in example above), I figured why not make it all a contextual menu service
in Finder so I select the files(s) and it generates a text string which then is
copied to the clipboard.
I know I can write an AppleScript to do text substitution and copy to
Clipboard, and then make that an Automator service, but surprised me I couldn’t
find anything in Automator itself other than the Rename Finder Item, the only
action that comes up when I search for “replace”.
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