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Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?
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Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?


  • Subject: Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?
  • From: Kevin Meaney <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 00:26:20 +0100

I think an applescript droplet, using the "on open" call which then calls "do shell script" with the path to your command and the file that is dropped on it.

Kevin

On 18 May 2014, at 00:14, Bob Sabiston <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I have a little console app written in C, one which takes a filename as an argc/argv argument.  Is there any *easy* way to make this into a tool which I can just drop files onto it in the finder?
>
> There used to be a program called DropScript which would do this, but it was PPC based and there is no Intel version that I can find.  I’ve never used Automator, would it do this?
>
> Thanks
> Bob
>
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