External script not running

[timhilde]

I'm trying to get Alfred run the following external script:

 

export LC_CTYPE=C
export LANG=C

cd /Users/tim/Desktop/"Remove Annotations"

for file in *.pdf
do
    outname=`sed -e "s/\.pdf$/_.pdf/"<<<"$file"`
    pdftk $file output - uncompress | sed '/^\/Annots/d' | pdftk - output $outname compress
    finalname=`sed -e "s/\_\.pdf$/.pdf/"<<<"$outname"`
    mv $outname /Users/tim/Desktop/$finalname
    echo "$file: done"
done

 

When running in from the Terminal it works fine, but Alfred seems to not do anything. The debugger doesn't say anything enlightening either. Maybe someone else can help me?

[vitor]

When a Workflow doesn’t run, check the debugger as it will give you important clues.

From a cursory glance, issues are that you’re missing a shebang and that you’re calling an external tool (pdftk) without using its full path (Understanding the scripting environment goes into more detail). Fixes are:

• Make the first line of your script #!/bin/zsh
• Use the full path to pdftk. Run which pdftk in a Terminal to find out what it is.