Starting a command-line tool (aria2)

[bhanquier]

Hi all, 

I've been trying to turn into a workflow a script I wrote to start the super-nice and useful command-line downloader aria2. For some reason I don't seem to be getting any result, so maybe someone can help me? 

The script is placed in a bin/bash sheet, and goes as follows: 

aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-allow-origin-all \
  --conf-path $HOME/Library/Preferences/aria2.conf \
  --load-cookies $HOME/.aria/cookies.sqlite3 \
  --daemon \

As a script, it works perfectly, but in a workflow no dice.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

Edit: after seeing all those fantastic workflows some people are creating, if anybody wants to make one with more commands than just launch aria2 (hint: pasting a url directly from the clipboard), I would be more than grateful! Even though I try to do my best, I'm not at all command-line savvy myself unfortunately…

Edited May 8, 2013 by bhanquier

[bhanquier]

Why, it seems my "problem" doesn't interest much 

Anyways, after much tinkering, I've found out a solution: apparently you need to specify the whole path to the command-line tool in question… command-line will elude me for the rest of my life I guess! So in my case (YMMV) it gives:

/usr/local/bin/aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-allow-origin-all \
  --conf-path $HOME/.aria/aria2.conf \
  --load-cookies $HOME/.aria/cookies.sqlite3 \
  --daemon \

or you can bundle the utility in the workflow, in which case it will be: 

./aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-allow-origin-all \
  --conf-path $HOME/.aria/aria2.conf \
  --load-cookies $HOME/.aria/cookies.sqlite3 \
  --daemon \

If it can be of help to someone else…

[jdfwarrior]

Why, it seems my "problem" doesn't interest much 

Anyways, after much tinkering, I've found out a solution: apparently you need to specify the whole path to the command-line tool in question… command-line will elude me for the rest of my life I guess! So in my case (YMMV) it gives:

/usr/local/bin/aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-allow-origin-all \
  --conf-path $HOME/.aria/aria2.conf \
  --load-cookies $HOME/.aria/cookies.sqlite3 \
  --daemon \

or you can bundle the utility in the workflow, in which case it will be: 

./aria2c --enable-rpc --rpc-allow-origin-all \
  --conf-path $HOME/.aria/aria2.conf \
  --load-cookies $HOME/.aria/cookies.sqlite3 \
  --daemon \

If it can be of help to someone else…

 

The reason it's like this is because by default, Alfred doesn't import your profile settings. I believe by default that Alfred only has /sbin, /bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/bin. This obviously would exclude the path that your file is installed in so it would indeed require the full path to run this application.

[bhanquier]

Thanks for the information David, it might be of some help for future trials and errors