Separate output for scripts and clipboard actions

[chadv]

Hello,

 

Is there anyway to access the title value from the Copy to Clipboard task?

 

My results look like this:

<items>
  <item arg="/Users/chad/logins.txt:77">
    <title>alfredforums.com login: chadv</title>
    <subtitle>Open file.txt at line 77</subtitle>
  </item>
  <item arg="/Users/chad/logins.txt:99">
    <title>othersite.com login: chad</title>
    <subtitle>Open file.txt at line 99</subtitle>
  </item>
</items>

My primary action is an applescript that handles opening the file and selecting the line specified. I want to make a secondary action, accessible via modifier key, that copies the title value to the clipboard.

 

If this isn't possible natively, I can work around it with a script, but I wanted to ask first.

 

(EDIT: My original post was longer and rambling, I've reduced it for clarity.)

Edited June 14, 2014 by chadv

[dfay]

This description is really confusing, so maybe my response is off, but why not use the same script that opens text edit and selects the line # to also copy the title to the clipboard using Applescript's set the clipboard to ?

[chadv]

This description is really confusing, so maybe my response is off, but why not use the same script that opens text edit and selects the line # to also copy the title to the clipboard using Applescript's set the clipboard to ?

Thanks for your sugesstion, dfay. I'll probably wind up doing something like this, but using command line tools instead of Applescript and TextEdit.

 

I'm going to try to simplify my question to make it a little more clear what I'm looking for.

Edited June 14, 2014 by chadv

[rice.shawn]

You can look into pbcopy / pbpaste from the command line. Otherwise, a not so elegant solution would be to split the output and run the argument through two different scripts, one that does the output and the other that copies the title (via the copy to clipboard workflow action).

[deanishe]

If I've understood you correctly, you want to pass two different values to two different actions at the same time.

 

Alfred can't do that natively, so you can either bundle both your values together in arg and split them again afterwards or save one of the values to a temporary file and read it back from there.