Trigger actions remotely with SSH?

[Dr.Peril]

Hey all,

I'm wondering if it's possible to trigger Alfred via SSH?

I would like to trigger the Ejectall feature from shortcuts on my iPhone with the "Run script over SSH" function.

 

I've found some terminal commands to eject all disks like:

find /Volumes -maxdepth 1 -not -user root -print0 | xargs -0 diskutil eject

but it chokes if /Volumes has a network share attached... :S 

Thanks for the help!

[deanishe]

You could try passing the ejectall query to Alfred and simulating ↩ via AppleScript.

 

Using GUI apps from the command-line is a last resort kind of thing, though. You'd be better off writing a script based on your above commands.

[Dr.Peril]

Hey, thanks for idea, I'll see if it's possible.

Yeah, I have an apple script the shortcut runs if it's being run on my Mac, I guess I was just hoping there was a CLI option that would make life a bit easier. Sounds like it might actually be more doing. 

[deanishe]

41 minutes ago, Dr.Peril said:

I guess I was just hoping there was a CLI option that would make life a bit easier.

 

That’s diskutil, tbh. You can enumerate volumes in AppleScript quite easily, too.

[Dr.Peril]

So just by chance this was just posted on SIx Colors: https://sixcolors.com/post/2021/12/run-shortcuts-from-the-mac-command-line/

Basically, you can call shortcuts in the command line. So Alfred isn't really needed, one can run the shortcut directly via ssh.

Edited December 2, 2021 by Dr.Peril

[deanishe]

5 hours ago, Dr.Peril said:

one can run the shortcut directly via ssh.

 

Sure, but what shortcut? I thought you wanted to eject volumes?

[Dr.Peril]

Oh, apologies, yeah there are a ton of Eject Disk shortcuts, I grabbed some Apple Script as mentioned and put it into a shortcut. Just wanted to 'post a solution' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

I guess that makes this entire thread kinda moot since I didn't land on using Alfred but... maybe someone else will find this useful:

 

-- Copy of script b/c editing on iPhone sometimes nulls that block.
to ejectAllDisk()
	try
		tell application "Finder"
			-- Prevent unmounting full disks, those generally are mounted backup snapshots etc.
			eject (every disk whose ejectable is true and free space is not equal to 0)
		end tell
	on error
		display notification "Failed to eject all disks" with title "Eject all disks" subtitle "Failure"
	end try
end ejectAllDisk

-- this is the entry method.
on run
	try
		with timeout of 30 seconds
			ejectAllDisk()
		end timeout
	on error
		display notification "Eject is still in progress" with title "Eject all disks" subtitle "Timeout"
		ejectAllDisk()
	end try
end run

 

Edited December 2, 2021 by Dr.Peril