davosian Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 (edited) I am working on a workflow which should execute a shell script command for of the documents (*.xml files) currently selected in the Finder. I did some experiments around it, but could not get it to work yet. Any pointers, e.g. what workflow elements I will need? I am currently thinking along the lines of first calling an applescript which gives me the selected files, then filtering out only the xml files and lastly calling a shell script for each of the files or alternatively calling the script once but passing along an array of xml files. What do you guys think? Thanks for any suggestions / sample workflows. Edited November 6, 2013 by davosian Link to comment
jdfwarrior Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I am working on a workflow which should execute a shell script command for of the documents (*.xml files) currently selected in the Finder. I did some experiments around it, but could not get it to work yet. Any pointers, e.g. what workflow elements I will need? I am currently thinking along the lines of first calling an applescript which gives me the selected files, then filtering out only the xml files and lastly calling a shell script for each of the files or alternatively calling the script once but passing along an array of xml files. What do you guys think? Thanks for any suggestions / sample workflows. If you use File Actions you wouldn't have to write your own AppleScript to do that. You could simply press Cmd+Opt+\ and select your action to run. That would pass a tab delimited list of selected files into the workflow. Then you would only need to split it up using the delimiter and run through a loop to hit every file Link to comment
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