sxalexander

I love Alfred but I struggled at first to troubleshoot my workflow scripts due to difficulty finding a way to debug.  I've seen posts mentioning writing logs to an external file but that seemed hack-y, especially since Alfred includes a debug console.  If you'd like to use the console to debug your scripts, I found the following very useful.  It would be great if there were a mention of this in the docs:

To show script output in the debug console, print (or echo or put, etc) the output to stderr instead of stdout.

In a Bash script:

>&2 echo "Log this output to the console"

In a Python script:

import sys

sys.stderr.write("Log this to the console")

For other languages, look for an equivalent method that allows you to log to stderr.

This is my most sought after Alfred update (of the moment =)).  Any way to do with without a thirdparty app?