Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?
Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?
- Subject: Re: Drag and drop onto BSD command line tool?
- From: Bob Sabiston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 18:54:13 -0500
On May 17, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Kevin Meaney <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>> You have to create the right kind of Automator workflow for dropping files onto, then you have to select from a popup what to do with the input, then you write your script.
>
> Duh. Step 1.5, you add a "Run Shell Script" action to your workflow.
>
OK thanks — I am trying this and it almost works. It does run the script, but it is not passing the dropped filename as an argc/argv argument. The script just reports that it gets no arguments. I did set “Pass Input” on the “Run Shell Script” to “as arguments”, so it seems like it should work.
Within Automator, you have to add a “Get Specified Finder Items” action before the script, if you want to run it within Automator. I tried that, and it just doesn’t seem to pass the filename as an argument. Maybe it is actually passing the *contents* of the dropped file, instead of just its filename? But my script is reporting no arguments besides the script name.
Bob
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