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Hi! I have been a user of Alfred (+ Powerpack) for years, but only recently decided to invest more time into customizing it with the workflows I thought were helpful. As I am a software developer, I generally setup any new Mac OSX environment using a completely automated installer: https://github.com/kigster/pullulant I wanted to add to Pullulant a simple bash script for installing Alfred. I can install the software itself using Homebrew, and then I was hoping to download and install my favorite workflows. I have now spent over an hour searching online, and I am absolutely stunned to find out that Alfred, the supposedly tool for automating your OS-X life, is itself so difficult to automate!!! What I want is a single line command I can run in Terminal (or iTerm, i.e. bash), that tells Alfred to import the given workflow. Since Alfred insists on choosing a category for a workflow (which is completely useless in my opinion), I would imagine that this command would need to tell Alfred what category to assign it. Right now I am able to do this: open $(curl -s -L -O -w %{filename_effective} \ https://github.com/packal/repository/raw/master/com.alfredapp.mdeboer.atom/atom.alfredworkflow) And as you would expect, curl downloads the file, OSX then opens Alfred, which then stays open like a village fool waiting for me to choose a category for it, and I can't, for the love of life, my laptop or the universe, find a way to make this entire process non-interactive, so that I can run it in a goddamn loop and be done with it. Why!? Why is it so hard? LOL. Cry. LOL. Cry. Sorry, it's very late, and I am getting a bit delirious. I do not mean to offend anyone, I just hoped that I could find a solution without having to post a new question in the forum, because even after searching this entire forum for "install", "command line", "bash", "terminal", "non-interactive" I found nada. Your truly, Konstantin https://github.com/kigster