I'm trying to create a File Action workflow to open selected files in Kaleidoscope (a diff tool). There are two steps in the workflow:
A File Action, named "Compare in Kaleidoscope", that accepts multiple files.
A Bash script that runs "open -a Kaleidoscope {query}"
The Bash script has all six escaping checkboxes checked. There is no option to escape a single quote character, though. As a result, this breaks when comparing files that contain a single quote in the filename.
On Twitter, @alfredapp suggested wrapping {query} in double quotes and escaping the double quotes. This broke the workflow, I'm guessing because it looks to the Bash script that {query} is a single argument.
Query Escaping in File Action Workflows
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I'm trying to create a File Action workflow to open selected files in Kaleidoscope (a diff tool). There are two steps in the workflow:
The Bash script has all six escaping checkboxes checked. There is no option to escape a single quote character, though. As a result, this breaks when comparing files that contain a single quote in the filename.
On Twitter, @alfredapp suggested wrapping {query} in double quotes and escaping the double quotes. This broke the workflow, I'm guessing because it looks to the Bash script that {query} is a single argument.
Any suggestions on how to get this to work?